You are right, the JRE is missing the tools.jar ... I'll change that out for the full jdk. Hope that's my last brainfart for the day.
Thank you -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Cyrill Zadra [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ant build error about java Is "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7" really a JDK? Not just the JRE?. I'm not sure if anybody has ever built Apache Flex with ant 1.8. I think 1.7.0 is the tested version. Cyrill On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Kessler CTR Mark J <[email protected]> wrote: > > Was setting up a new PC to be able to build the flex-sdk from the > development branch and ran into an error with ANT. I ran a standard Ant > build from the Flex-SDK folder (root of flex folder). It seems to be having > an issue with Java, but the paths are correct. Are we still supposed to be > on jdk 1.6 instead of 1.7? > > > Environment: > Flex-sdk - lastest as of yesterday (cloned main repo and changed to > development branch). > Ant - 1.8 > Java - 1.7 > Flashglobal - 11.1 > > All the environmental variables are set and their bin folders included in the > path. > > > BUILD FAILED > D:\Development\Flex\Flex-SDK\build.xml:344: The following error occurred > while executing this line: > D:\Development\Flex\Flex-SDK\modules\build.xml:158: The following error > occurred while executing this line: > D:\Development\Flex\Flex-SDK\modules\thirdparty\xerces-patch\build.xml:52: > 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. > It is currently set to "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7" > > > -Mark >
