WebGL always gets stuck building player - building native binary with IL2CPP

@JoshPeterson not sure what happened but using 2019.4.22f1 seems to be fast building Android apps both apk and Google Play Store bundles when i am build basically just a blank scene...

In my actual project it is still very slow in both apk and aab builds

update:
I was able to get a fast build consistently in my project by remove 3 shaders labeled

1. Hidden/CubeBlur
2. Hidden/CubeCopy
3. Hidden/CubeBlend

If i reset the `project settings -> Graphics` those remain and / or If i remove them manually everything builds fast... I am not sure why these shaders are added after resetting the graphics options nor why manually removing them sped things up but so did a reset...

but hey if this keeps up I am good to go

also the subsequent development build is slow I will see if follow builds after the first development build is also slow once this one finishes...

so after an hour the development build has finished and the followup with no changes to the project seems to be on the path to be just as slow

i will kill it and try to manually remove those shaders again...

So the follow development build finished in 15 minutes with those shaders removed

and now once again one final try with no changes except disabling the development build option ... will report back
ok that was 12 minutes and now doing a no change rebuild and checking for time again...
and that follow up was just over 2 minutes...

kinda all over the place in the results wish i had a more definitive response but it is what it is

 

@JoshPeterson
So I switched to IL2CPP and therefore no mono is not set to be used as the scripting backend and as far as i know it should not be what is used but either way I do find a `mono` process is invoked when building even when the backend scripting is set to IL2CPP

I checked the project directory and could not find a file labeled `profile.json` is there some way I need to trigger it's creation during a build?

how do i check the command line options for the `clang++` processes?

I will do my best to provide accurate feedback but a little guidance might help thanks.

 

@JoshPeterson so I use Ubuntu Linux for all my desktop needs...

I set an environmental variable in my `.bashrc` file in my home directory and it is definitely set



searching the project directory after a build does not find a file named profile.json


and in the mentioned folder it is not there: (alphabetically order shows it goes from m to s with no files starting with p )


I do have an app called htop but how to get command line options from it is not something i know how to do...

 

Also yet again more inconstancy I got a fast build using the development options... so really at this point I have no clue why it is fast sometimes and not others

 

well not sure what to do for the profile.json file...

and I tried to build again with a different scene but it went pretty fast but I will try to remember to capture info using `ps -ax | grep clang` the next time it is slow

 

@JoshPeterson `ps -ax | grep clang` results

you might need to hit the reply button for this post to see the results...

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the build did in fact complete successfully

the only consistent thing at this point seems like when in development mode it is very slow and generally it is faster otherwise

I suppose if needed I could try again but use a basic blank scene...

that project has several assets attached to it... I actually ran the `ps -ax | grep clang` command several times through the waiting period and copied it for you to see.... it all mostly looked the same to me so i just copied and pasted it after changing the user and computer name...

I guess now that i look at it I should have also run the `date` command to show how long it was between the times i entered the command...

 

using 2021.1.1f1, still have this problem, waiting over 1hour 30 mins, does not proceed after Building Player pop up window Building native binary with IL2CPP...

 

I am getting this as well - 4 hours build time so far - cannot see any profile json - probably cause its still on building native binary with IL2CPP

 

I have a feeling its a shader or the LRP or a combination of shaders and the LRP or something along those lines - just recreating my library folder first then will look at illumination stuff for LRP first and move on from there.

 

tried changing some of the shaders but no luck - gonna see if it even finishes building its at 7 hours + right now

 

11+ hours and i gave up and was still going - any suggestions to try?

 

o snap i removed all the shaders except for 1 from the video shaders portion and that seems to have moved on after only 13 minutes - gonna add 1 by 1 back in

 

hmmm everything is pink when the site finishes loading (after the unity logo loading portion)

 

annddd its slow again - even removing all the shaders again - yeesh 9 hours and still stuck building native binary

 

"C:\Program Files\2020.3.15f2\Editor\Data\il2cpp/build/deploy/netcoreapp3.1/il2cpp.exe" @"artifacts\rsp\9597218057848841659.rsp" seems to be getting stuck on that

 

yeesh exclude the dang il2cpp in the AV hasnt been an issue since now

 

Hey @JoshPeterson I'm having the same issue as @duartedd and others. For some reason my builds will sit stuck at IL2CPP, I left one build for over 15 hours and it still didn't budge. I've tried allowing exceptions in my AV but still nothing (I'm using BitDefender).

When I run windows process explorer this is the line that it appears to be held up on: D:\Unity\2020.3.12f1\Editor\Data\il2cpp/build/deploy/netcoreapp3.1/il2cpp.exe @"artifacts\rsp\9262852920640934459.rsp"

This has been the only project that hasn't been able to build as a WebGL for me and I'm unable to recreate the issue in other projects, so I'm not sure what's left to try, could it be a custom shader?

 

Yeah those were some of my first steps (Disabling BitDefender for one build, then adding exceptions for another, trying deleting Highlight Plus) and each time I would leave a build overnight, so they would run for about 10-11 hours. For some odd reason it builds just fine when I do a cloud build so all is not lost, but just sucks that I can't build it on my own desktop. Any other ideas?

 

No problem. Unfortunately I usually cancel it out since there is usually 0 cpu usage and no matter how long I leave it (longest has been 16 hours). When I check what process is running, it always says it's on this process "D:\Unity\2020.3.12f1\Editor\Data\il2cpp/build/deploy/netcoreapp3.1/il2cpp.exe @"artifacts\rsp\9262852920640934459.rsp"

But if I take a blank project or one of my earlier games, it compiles and builds for WebGL no problem.

 

It's usually all on it's own as the only child process from the Bee.exe tree. I can send screenshots of it when I get a chance

 

Here's a screenshot showing the process tree, as you see, IL2CPP is the only one running with no children

 

I ran the compiler with BitDefender off and got the same results. I also noticed that every time I play a cloud build of my game it crashes at random parts and throws these errors in the console. Do you think these could somehow be related?

 

For sure! and yeah I do find it weird that it builds a cloud build but will almost always crash after loading into the first or 2nd level, as I've never faced issues like this in my other WebGL builds.

 

Hey there! I’m guessing this conversation moved to the ticket. Any chance you found a solution?

 

Same i am on unity 2017,1,2f1 and the first time ive biuld the game on WebGL it glicthes and i cant do any thing. tell me any thing that will help.

 

I know the resion i use unity 2017 is becus it loads faster that 2021 that takes 11 minutes to load to the scene from the hub. then it take 1 minute to load the scene witch 2017 loads in 1 minute to almost 30 seconds compared to the 2021 kind. There for thanks for telling me. Æ.Jessie