Has anyone found a fix for "ParsedContract.sol:3:1: ParserError: Source file requires different compiler version"?

Question

Following the truffle pet shop tutorial and ran into this error when running truffle migrate:

ParsedContract.sol:3:1: ParserError: Source file requires different compiler version (current compiler is 0.5.2+commit.1df8f40c.Emscripten.clang - note that nightly builds are considered to be strictly less than the released version
contract Election {
^------^
Compilation failed. See above.
Truffle v5.0.0 (core: 5.0.0)
Node v11.2.0

when running truffle version I get:

Truffle v5.0.0 (core: 5.0.0)
Solidity v0.5.0 (solc-js)
Node v11.2.0

and in my contracts Im using:

pragma solidity ^0.4.24

Has anyone ran into this issue? Any help getting past this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You are using truffle v5, by default it will use solc v0.5.0.

But you can add a configuration option to specify solc version to use.

module.exports = {
  ...
  compilers: {
    solc: {
      version: "^0.4.25"
    }
  }
};

IMHO the better option is to migrate your contracts to solc v0.5.0.