Re: JAVA_HOME error

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:23:37 -0800 


Gav.... wrote:

Hi All,

 
Just reinstalled everything onto new laptop and now can not get forrest 
build to work, complains it can not find the java compiler.
 
heres the output :-
 
D:\Apache2\forrest\main>build
Using classpath: 
";..\lib\endorsed\jakarta-bcel-20040329.jar;..\lib\endorsed\jak

arta-regexp-1.4.jar;..\lib\endorsed\xalan-2.7.0.jar;..\lib\endorsed\xercesImpl-2
.7.1.jar;..\lib\endorsed\xml-apis-1.3.02.jar"

Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre1.5.

0_06\lib\tools.jar
Buildfile: build.xml

 
init:
 
      --------------------------------------------------------------
 
      Using Apache Ant version 1.6.2 compiled on July 16 2004

      Build file D:\Apache2\forrest\main\build.xml
      Use 'build.[sh|bat] -projecthelp' to see other options.
      Build system home ..\tools\ant
      Build number 13
      Project Name Forrest build file
      Java Version 1.5
      Timestamp 200603072123
      This is: apache-forrest 0.8-dev

 
      --------------------------------------------------------------
 


compile:
Compiling 34 source files to D:\Apache2\forrest\build\classes

 
BUILD FAILED

D:\Apache2\forrest\main\build.xml:358: Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK

 
Total time: 1 second
 
This worked fine with 1.5.0_04 on my old lappy, but not with 1.5.0_06 on 
this one.

Path and JAVA_HOME are set.

 
Any ideas or known issues ?
 
Gav...


Possibly you installed a JRE but not a J2SDK?

HTH,
        Torsten