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Question by daniel Noakes · Dec 16, 2010 at 03:58 PM · exceptioncompiler

How can I fix error "ApplicationException: Unable to find a suitable compiler"?

Last night, I finished my Unity work. I saved it, closed it, then reopened it and build it, then saved and closed it again, then reopened the build and it worked fine.

Today I cannot find the build anywhere on my computer and it is now coming up with this error message:

 ApplicationException: Unable to find a suitable compiler
 UnityEditor.Scripting.ScriptCompilers.CreateCompilerInstance (MonoIsland island) (E:/BuildAgent/work/71ca6fec1b41cc30/Editor/Mono/Scripting/ScriptCompilers.cs.101)

I have no clue in which to fix it.

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avatar image Statement · Dec 16, 2010 at 04:20 PM 0
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Changed the title to widen your audience scope.

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Are you on $$anonymous$$ac or Windows?

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Answer by bowditch · Feb 16, 2011 at 04:49 PM

I had some students in my class run into this error as well. What I found was they were creating published builds and saving them inside of the Assets directory. By simply deleting the builds or moving them out of Assets, the errors went away!

Hope that helps.

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avatar image bowditch · Feb 20, 2011 at 05:00 PM 0
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I also found a similar error while importing the (mobile) Standard Assets UnityPackage. I had imported it on error, and once removed the compiler errors went away.

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i am not building in my asset folder... and not imported the mobile asset...but getting the same error...help :(

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@bowditch

Thank you for your post, your solution worked for me as well. For future reference I was creating an "Executable" folder inside my "Assets" directory. Removing the folder fixed the ApplicationException.

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THAN$$anonymous$$S :) simple solution and resolve my issue, bowditch you are awesome

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Thank you for posting this reply, you solved my headaches tonight, this was my problem.

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Answer by Proclyon · Dec 16, 2010 at 04:08 PM

Well all I can think off this quickly after some google searching is:

1: Rebuild else 2: Reboot +1 else 3: Reinstall + 2 + 1 else 4: Get a better answer than mine which is advice at best

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I have tried all that but thank you for answering back

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Use the comments to reply back to an answer, to keep the questions tidy and the system working :) Thanks.

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Answer by shadows_s · May 24, 2014 at 05:39 PM

I had the same problem. Solution is: Assets -> Reimport all.

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This worked for me after removing the Builds from my assets directory.

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Answer by Indie1 · Oct 30, 2014 at 05:32 AM

SOLVED- Solved it by removing a folder that has models in it. Basically solved by removing stuff done/added after a previous successful build.

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