[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse can't find javac

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually... it's curious that Eclipse is looking for javac at all.
Eclipse uses ecj to compile Java.

What are you doing that results in this error?

Wayne

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:21 -0700, Kyle Peter Fritz wrote:
> When attempting to compile, I get an error:
> 
> Compilation error: 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\jdk1.6.0_06\jre"
> 
> Obviously, this isn't right.  It should be set to "C:\Program 
> Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".  I don't know why it has that "jre" directory at 
> the end.  My environment variable for JAVA_HOME is set to "C:\Program 
> Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".  The location of the installed JRE in 
> Preferences>Java>Installed JREs is "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06". 
> Even Ant seems configured correctly with 
> Preferences>Ant>Runtime>Classpath>Global Entries listing "C:\Program 
> Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\lib\tools.jar".
> 
> I can't figure out why Eclipse is looking for javac in the jre subdirectory, 
> and I am scratching my head trying to figure out where this setting was 
> made.  Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?
> 
> -KPF 
> 
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