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POISON72
POISON72

Reputation: 17

Firebase and Unity: Unable to find command line tool error

After following tutorials on how to correctly install firebase into unity for an authentication system, I encountered an error that was:

Unable to find command line tool C:\The E-Learning System\Assets\Firebase\Editor\generate_xml_from_google_services_json.py required for Firebase Android resource generation.

From understnading it can not find either the google services file I imported into the assets folder or it could not find the generate_xml_from_google_services_json.py file. I looked online for people with similar problems could not find a clear answer to fix this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2812

Answers (1)

Patrick Martin
Patrick Martin

Reputation: 3141

This is a tool that ships with the SDK to support debugging your game in the Unity Editor. One minor caveat is that an exe actually ships on Windows (I assume that this is your operating system from the C:/). You should make sure that generate_xml_from_google_services_json.exe exists in that same directory (.exe's are typically ignored in many standard .gitignore as a catchall for build files). If it's missing, you can simply re-add the Firebase SDK and double check that this file gets included in your source repository.

If both generate_xml_from_google_services_json.py and generate_xml_from_google_services_json.exe exist under Assets/Firebase/Editor, you may also want to install Python for Windows (especially if you're still running Windows 7 or 8). This is due to a recent patch (as of 6.10.0) that fixes some incompatibilities with generate_xml_from_google_services_json.exe and older Windows variants. If that doesn't help, it would be awesome if you could file an issue or reach out to support directly. If there's a bug in that fallback, it would be helpful to surface that ASAP.

Let me know if that helps!

--Patrick

Upvotes: 1

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