How I do it on mac is: 1. I have JDK 9 installed.
2. In the terminal, I do export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8` 3. Then in the same terminal I run 'ant' to build the NetBeans sources. Gj On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Anton Epple <toni.ep...@eppleton.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > > the description on git incubator-netbeans suggests to have both JDK 9 and > JDK 8 installed when building NB from sources. On mac this can cause > problems, so the description should maybe be updated with instructions to > make it work: > > > > When you start the build with JDK 9 installed, you get the info that you > need to set nbjdk.home to jdk 8. If you do that the build stops complaining > and starts, but fails later with compilation errors. They can be solved by > setting JAVA_HOME to jdk 8. That is quite confusing, so maybe the readme > should mention that, or even better the ANT build. > > > > Regards > > > > Toni > > > > > >
