Chris, thank you for your reply!
I think I may be on to something. I've checked the project properties of
the NetBeans Build System and in Java Sources Classpath it had "JDK 12
(Default)" selected for Java Platform. I changed it to JDK 1.8 and the
build worked!
However doing so has changed nbbuild/nbproject/nbjdk.properties file:
diff --git a/nbbuild/nbproject/nbjdk.properties
b/nbbuild/nbproject/nbjdk.properties
index e0fb9c040d..d57e670256 100644
--- a/nbbuild/nbproject/nbjdk.properties
+++ b/nbbuild/nbproject/nbjdk.properties
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
# specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.
-nbjdk.active=JDK_1.7
+nbjdk.active=JDK_1.8
It would seem that the fact I haven't had JDK 1.7 installed made the
build try to use default JDK 12 despite the nbjdk.home option and the
initial check step allowed the build to continue until it's failed on
its own due to JDK 12 incompatibility.
Out of curiosity, I changed the setting back to "JDK 12 (Default)" and
the same line has changed to "nbjdk.active=default_platform", so there's
also no way back except to checkout the file from git.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to help to put "nbjdk.active=JDK_1.8" to
user.build.properties or .nbbuild.properties as it seems to be ignored
(or maybe rather being too late to have an effect). I haven't found any
other way to change that setting without making changes to files under
git control, or to change the default Java platform in NetBeans Java
Platform Manager. I guess for now I'll have to take care not to commit
it by accident.
In any case, I think this little detail is not obvious, at least for the
new folks, and perhaps could be reflected on wiki, or better yet somehow
addressed in the build process itself. If it sounds like a reasonable
request, I may search JIRA and/or create an issue for this.
On 2019/08/12 07:35:43, "Luff,Chris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you have the project open in NetBeans, right click on the root of
the project, go to Properties and in the tree ensure you have the
correct JDK in the Compile leaf and that the Sources match at least 1.7
but go for 1.8. You should be able to build 11.x on anything >=8 but I
would try just 8 with 8 sources to start with.>
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> On 12 Aug 2019, at 06:41, Korney Czukowski <[email protected]>> wrote:>
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> Hi all,>
>
> I'm new here, and also to Java development, so please bear with me if
I ask any stupid question :) Currently I'm looking around NetBeans
ecosystem, trying to figure it out, in hope to implement a few
improvements to help me in my work, and if successful, also to
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> I've found this page, from which I assumed that NetBeans may be built
either from command line or NetBeans itself:>
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>
https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FNETBEANS%2FDevelopment%2BEnvironment&data=02%7C01%7CChris.Luff%40cerner.com%7Ce699decc81964b76225f08d71ee89c3c%7Cfbc493a80d244454a815f4ca58e8c09d%7C0%7C1%7C637011856758266335&sdata=2221IGkmPNhW8ZonSULqWcC0RE8UKhdbQnBhHOCFN3I%3D&reserved=0>
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> I've been having some troubles making it work though. With NetBeans
11.0 I was unable to build using the CLI, which made me look deeper and
discover the NetBeans Build System project and that the build was
successful if I ran it from NetBeans instead of CLI. I wasn't able to
figure out what was the difference, but I was happy since building from
NetBeans seemed more comfortable to me. However after NetBeans 11.1
release and me pulling the latest changes from master, that has changed.
Now I seem to be able to build only from CLI, but not from NetBeans and
I can't see what am I doing wrong. I haven't installed any other JDK or
Ant versions in between.>
>
> I would really like to be able to build from NetBeans. I think there
must be something in my setup that I'm missing and I'd like to
understand what the issue is before I can focus on the issues I was
trying to get to in the first place.>
>
>
> I have both JDK 1.8.0 and 12.0.1 installed (NetBeans runs with the
latter), and I've configured the build properties to use 1.8 as advised
by the build script (without this option the build stops at the very
beginning with a message saying to either add this or another option to
permit JDK 1.9+ builds):>
>
> nbjdk.home=c:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_212>
>
> My Ant is version 1.10.6 (I noticed NetBeans comes with its own Ant
of a slightly different version) and I have an environment variable that
seems to make it use the correct JDK:>
>
> JAVA_HOME=c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_212\>
>
> When I try to build from NetBeans, it always fails at openide.util
module, the build log ends with lines similar to these (varies depending
on whether the build is full or just one module)>
>
> ...>
> 100 warnings>
> ...>
> ...>
> Compiling 39 source files to
C:\Workspace\Netbeans\platform\openide.util\build\test\unit\classes>
> error: Source option 6 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.>
> error: Target option 6 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.>
> C:\Workspace\Netbeans\nbbuild\templates\common.xml:587: The following
error occurred while executing this line:>
> C:\Workspace\Netbeans\nbbuild\templates\common.xml:583: The following
error occurred while executing this line:>
> C:\Workspace\Netbeans\nbbuild\templates\common.xml:637: The following
error occurred while executing this line:>
> C:\Workspace\Netbeans\nbbuild\templates\common.xml:615: Compile
failed; see the compiler error output for details.>
> BUILD FAILED (total time: 23 seconds)>
>
> By adding an echo task to the file mentioned, I got the details of
the failing build task:>
>
> <nb-javac
srcdir="C:\Workspace\Netbeans\platform\openide.util\test\unit\src">
>
destdir="C:\Workspace\Netbeans\platform\openide.util\build\test\unit\classes">
> excludes="" debug="true" deprecation="true" encoding="UTF-8">
> source="1.6" target="1.6" optimize="off" includeantruntime="false">>
> <classpath refid="test.unit.cp"/>>
> <compilerarg line="-Xlint -Xlint:-serial"/>>
> <processorpath refid="test.unit.cp"/>>
> </nb-javac>>
>
> Any advice appreciated!>
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