Createmultidexmaindexclasslist Error When Building Xamarin.android Using Multidex

Edit - Reduced to the root of the problem I'm getting this error when Multi-Dex is enabled. CREATEMULTIDEXMAINDEXCLASSLIST : error : Expecting class path separator ':' before '.ja

Solution 1:

I have reported the following bug for this issue:

https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=59237

Please feel free to CC yourself to this issue to be notified when it gets fixed. For the time being, you will have to workaround this by renaming the .jar in some fashion.

I hope this helps!

Solution 2:

This is because there is a binding library with an embedded Jar file with brackets in its filename - which cause the command line for ProGuard to fail.

@jondouglas has submitted Xamarin bug 59237 for this. Hopefully the fix will be to make the command line for ProGuard more resilient to strangely named files.

In the meantime, I will have to get hold of an updated binding library with the embedded jar file not having a name with parentheses (or other character which breaks a command line) in it.

Thanks to @jondouglas for his help in diagnosing the problem.