Could not find artifacts for ./Election from any sources

Question

I tried solutions provided in ethereum stack, but nothing worked for me.

My smart contract file:

pragma solidity ^0.4.15;

contract Election {

    string public candidate;

    function Eletion () public {
        candidate = "Candidate 1";
    }
}

Migration file:

var Election = artifacts.require("./Election.sol");

module.exports = function(deployer) {
  deployer.deploy(Election);
};

Im getting the following Error

Using network 'development'.

Running migration: 2_deploy_contracts.js

C:\Users\jeevastella\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:59973 throw new Error("Could not find artifacts for " + import_path + " from any sources"); ^ C:\Users\jeevastella\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:59973 throw new Error("Could not find artifacts for " + import_path + " from any sources"); ^

Error: Could not find artifacts for ./Election from any sources at Resolver.require (C:\Users\jeevastella\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:59973:9) at Object.require (C:\Users\jeevastella\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:69602:36) at ResolverIntercept.require (C:\Users\jeevastella\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:197047:32) at C:\Users\jeevastella\Desktop\election\migrations\2_deploy_contracts.js:1:26 at Script.runInContext (vm.js:107:20) at Script.runInNewContext (vm.js:113:17) at C:\Users\jeevastella\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:101639:14 at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:53:3)

Answer 1

Don't know if you still need the answer, but I fixed it by editing the migration file require path. Change it to in your case var Election = artifacts.require("Election") Then run migrate with --reset

Answer 2

Do verify that the name of smart contract is same as mentioned in the migration file.