Which operating system are you building on and where does your Ant installation come from?
Gj On Saturday, March 10, 2018, Shaun Flynn <scf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Using JDK8 update 162 yields the same issue. > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 19:48 Geertjan Wielenga, <geertjan.wielenga@googlemail. > com> wrote: > >> Definitely and explicitly JDK 9 is not supported for building Apache >> NetBeans. >> >> All the instructions are here: https://github.com/ >> apache/incubator-netbeans/blob/master/README.md >> >> You're recommended to join the dev@ mailing list, for the kinds of >> things you're doing, i.e., working with the NetBeans sources, since that's >> where you'll find most people having done the same kinds of things relating >> to working with the NetBeans sources. >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gj >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Shaun Flynn <scf...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello there folks, >>> >>> I am trying to bulid Netbeans 9.0 from "https://github.com/apache/ >>> incubator-netbeans" using Git and Ant. >>> >>> I have tried using Java 8 and Java 9 but it does not build. >>> >>> When I get to the Ant stage, javac complains of the following. Can >>> anyone help? >>> >>> C:\Users\user>CD incubator-netbeans >>> >>> C:\Users\user\incubator-netbeans>ant -version >>> Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.2 compiled on February 3 2018 >>> >>> C:\Users\user\incubator-netbeans>ant >>> Buildfile: C:\Users\user\incubator-netbeans\build.xml >>> >>> -jdk-pre-preinit: >>> >>> -jdk-preinit: >>> >>> -jdk-warn: >>> >>> -jdk-presetdef-basic: >>> >>> -jdk-default: >>> >>> -jdk-init: >>> >>> -load-build-properties: >>> >>> bootstrap: >>> [echo] Bootstrapping NetBeans-specific Ant extensions... >>> [javac] Compiling 53 source files to C:\Users\user\incubator- >>> netbeans\nbbuild\build\antclasses >>> [javac] C:\Users\user\incubator-netbeans\nbbuild\antsrc\org\ >>> netbeans\nbbuild\LayerIndex.java:344: error: class ZipArray inherits >>> unrelated defaults for stream() from types ResourceCollection and Collection >>> [javac] private static final class ZipArray extends >>> ArrayList<Resource> >>> [javac] ^ >>> [javac] 1 error >>> >>> BUILD FAILED >>> C:\Users\user\incubator-netbeans\nbbuild\build.xml:88: Compile failed; >>> see the compiler error output for details. >>> >>> Total time: 11 seconds >>> >> >>