Android build does nothing -- was working 5 minutes earlier

Unity Engine
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Anybody know why an Android build would suddenly not compile (like, not even start – no error messages, nothing)?

I had just done a Build & Run to test my app about 20 times, no problem…
tested out some changed I made, saw a bug, tried to fix it… took about 5 minutes.

Build no longer does anything at all. Windows makes the error “ding” sound, but no messages are shown by Windows nor Unity. It simply doesn’t start processing the build at all…

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No thoughts? Turns out, there WERE updates going on in the background (KB4023057, KB890830, KB4041691, KB4049179), plus Java 8 update (to build 1.8.0_151-b12)

But after those updates… Unity (5.6.3f1, because I was working in Tango, and anything newer does not seem to support that) does not even attempt to do an Android build…

This is the weirdest and most frustrating problem I think I’ve encountered in several years of using Unity…

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Going to try again and check the Editor log, since no errors are showing up in an obvious way…

Okay, it’s saying it encountered compiler errors… how come the Unity editor/console was not making any note of compile errors prior to the build…?

Anyway, hopefully this will fix it. Maddening how user-unfriendly that was, though. I always see compile errors in the console report… never experienced this before

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Anyway, fixed it… super annoying that it made no indication that there were compile errors prior to attempting the build (and no notice of it upon build… until I checked the Editor Log, but I haven’t normally had to do that…)

Anyway, hope to get back to using 2017 soon, but I bought Asus Zenfone AR thinking it would be a good “all in one” development device for testing Cardboard, Daydream, and Tango… only to find Tango being deprecated, ARCore not being supported on it (for no apparent reason – if it works with Tango, it should definitely work with ARCore)… and problems with Tango compatibility on newer versions of Unity.

Guess I should have gone with the Galaxy S8 (support for Cardboard, Daydream, ARCore, AND Samsung Gear VR – seems like the device to get at the moment!)