Go-ethereum: cant run eth.compile.solidity getting exit status 1 must provide file

[omryr]

System information

Geth version: 1.5.0
OS & Version: OSX El capitan

I have been trying to run a compile with solidity and i keep getting the must provide file error

eth.compile.solidity("2")
solc: exit status 1
Must provide a file

Specify --help for available options

at web3.js:3119:20
at web3.js:6023:15
at web3.js:4995:36
at <anonymous>:1:1

any help would be greatly appericiated!

[bas-vk]

Try to use some proper solidity code, e.g.:

eth.compile.solidity("contract C{}")

You might want to take a look at http://ethereum.github.io/browser-solidity/#version=soljson-latest.js or install the standalone solidity compiler (instructions).

[fjl]

Which go-ethereum commit are you using? Which solc version?

With solidity 0.3.6 and geth from commit 5fc032a9d16ac6ea1dc020f06e44c24c94a361a7, I get

> eth.compile.solidity("2")
solc: exit status 1
/tmp/geth-compile-solidity901173321:1:1: Error: Expected import directive or contract definition.
2
^

    at web3.js:3119:20
    at web3.js:6023:15
    at web3.js:4995:36
    at <anonymous>:1:1

[omryr]

i am using a proper contract now and it still does the same

contract example i use:
ontract Token {
mapping (address => uint) public balances;
event TokenSent(address sender, address receiver, uint amount);
function Token(uint supply) {
if (supply == 0) supply = 10000;
balances[msg.sender] = supply;
}
function send(address receiver, uint amount) returns (bool ok) {
if (balances[msg.sender] < amount) return false;
balances[msg.sender] -= amount;
balances[receiver] += amount;
TokenSent(msg.sender, receiver, amount);
return true;
}
}

[Error: solc: exit status 1
Must provide a file

[fjl]

What is your solidity version? (output of solc --version)

[hzxscyq]

the output of solc --version is ERROR: Unknow opition --version what's wrong?

[fjl]

It sounds like your solidity installation is _very_ outdated. How did you install solidity?

[cesargalindo]

I'm also getting this error: exit status 1 Must provide a file error

Unable to compile.solidity this line in my javascript file:

  var compiled = web3.eth.compile.solidity("contract C{}");
   console.log(compiled);

ERROR:
ORIGINAL EXCEPTION: solc: exit status 1
Must provide a file

solc --version
0.4.2+commit.af6afb04.mod.Emscripten.clang

Using: ethereum:web3 0.15.3

[fjl]

@chriseth any idea what the issue could be?

[cesargalindo]

Got it working. Here's what I did. I'm on a Mac.

1) Uninstalled Ethereum using Brew, I was using 1.5.x unstable release. Re-installed latest stable release 1.4.18

2) This still didn't fix it. Uninstalled solidity:
npm uninstall solc -g

3) Installed solidity using Brew, now it works:

brew install solidity
brew linkapps solidity

[resurtm]

This is also not working for me. Here's my system & software details:

$ ./geth version
Geth
Version: 1.4.18-stable-c72f5459
Protocol Versions: [63 62]
Network Id: 1
Go Version: go1.7.1
OS: linux
GOPATH=
GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.7

$ screenfetch
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      ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P.        OS: Debian testing stretch
    ,g$$P""       """Y$$.".      Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64
   ,$$P'              `$$$.      Uptime: 4h 58m
  ',$$P       ,ggs.     `$$b:    Packages: 2565
  `d$$'     ,$P"'   .    $$$     Shell: bash 4.4.0
   $$P      d$'     ,    $$P     Resolution: 1920x1200
   $$:      $$.   -    ,d$$'     DE: XFCE
   $$\;      Y$b._   _,d$P'      WM: Xfwm4
   Y$$.    `.`"Y$$$$P"'          WM Theme: Next
   `$$b      "-.__               GTK Theme: Xfce-basic [GTK2]
    `Y$$                         Icon Theme: Tango
     `Y$$.                       Font: Sans 10
       `$$b.                     CPU: Intel Core i3 CPU 540 @ 3.067GHz
         `Y$$b.                  GPU: GeForce 9500 GT/PCIe/SSE2
            `"Y$b._              RAM: 4598MiB / 5961MiB
                `""""           

$ uname -a
Linux resurtm-desktop 4.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/version 
Linux version 4.7.0-1-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 5.4.1 20160904 (Debian 5.4.1-2) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1 (2016-10-19)

$ cat /etc/debian_version 
stretch/sid

$ node --version
v6.9.1

$ npm --version
3.10.8

$ solcjs --version
0.4.3+commit.2353da71.Emscripten.clang

$ solc --version
0.4.3+commit.2353da71.Emscripten.clang

$ ls -la /usr/bin/solc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  6 Oct 31 16:47 /usr/bin/solc -> solcjs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 31 16:32 /usr/bin/solcjs -> ../lib/node_modules/solc/solcjs

Here's how it does not work:

$ ./geth attach ipc:/home/resurtm/.ethereum/testnet/geth.ipc
Welcome to the Geth JavaScript console!

instance: Geth/v1.4.18-stable-c72f5459/linux/go1.7.1
coinbase: 0x1eded942353420c4ac3f3766ea858dff1f4afdca
at block: 1819615 (Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:53:09 +06)
 datadir: /home/resurtm/.ethereum/testnet
 modules: admin:1.0 debug:1.0 eth:1.0 miner:1.0 net:1.0 personal:1.0 rpc:1.0 txpool:1.0 web3:1.0

> var contract = eth.compile.solidity("contract test { function multiply(uint a) returns(uint d) { return a * 7; } }")
solc: exit status 1
Must provide a file

Specify --help for available options

    at web3.js:3119:20
    at web3.js:6023:15
    at web3.js:4995:36
    at <anonymous>:1:16

> 

Also reported here: https://github.com/ethereum/solc-js/issues/68#issue-186255964

[chriseth]

@cesargalindo @resurtm you are using the javascript commandline interface to the solidity compiler together with geth. Only the native binary commandline compiler works together with geth. It would not be a good idea to send a message to geth from javascript so that it invokes a new javascript process. Instead, you should compile your source in the javascript environment directly.

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