Error: Contract could not be compiled. Try another pragma solidity version.

[gpersoon]

When trying to use some source i got the error: "Error: Contract could not be compiled. Try another pragma solidity version.". After eliminating it turns out the following contact is causing the error:

pragma solidity ^0.5.0;
import "./test.sol";

The developer console contains

bundle.js:48855 TypeError: Cannot read property 'legacyAssembly' of undefined
bundle.js:48856 [ERROR] parse standard output error
bundle.js:49459 Error: pretest failed

[ninabreznik]

Thanks for this. Could you please help me reproduce this? When does is happen?

[ninabreznik]

[gpersoon]

serapath:

• the error message is because of the way we detect compiler problems with certain browsers. The version you specify (0.5.0) has a problem with the browser, BUT... it seems not with all possible contracts.

• The contract example you use would actually work, but doesn't because of the unsupported local imports ...

• it's just that there is another problem with this version that we detect first, but probably we shouldn't, because maybe if you compile a contract that would work with the compiler version you specified even though not all possible contracts work with that version as we detect ...... yeah...

[gpersoon]

For the record: i've tried all kinds of version numbers but they all show the same error message.