Re: Groovy Compiler

Daniel Sun <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:56:54 -0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.groovy.user
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try setting the following system property for groovy compilation:

-Dgroovy.target.bytecode=1.8

Cheers,
Daniel Sun

On 2024/12/13 00:14:39 James Poli via users wrote:
> Our company has upgraded to Groovy 4 and JDK 21. However, one platform we support, MVS, only supports a JDK 8 runtime.
> 
> When running a class compiled with Groovy 4, an exception results:
> 
> ... java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE199E bad major version 61.0 of class=..., the maximum supported major version is 52.0; offset=6
> 
> Can we cross-compile or force Groovy to generate bytecodes that support JDK 8?
> 
> I appreciate any help you can provide.
> Jim
> 
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