[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Problems with ANT/javac

["Darin Swanson" <Darin_Swanson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to add a jdk tools.jar to the Ant runtime classpath using the Ant
preference pages.

If you start Eclipse using the -vm arg so that Eclipse is launched using
your J2SDK install VM, Eclipse will automatically add the tools.jar to the
Ant
runtime classpath.

HTH
Darins

"Martin Dubuc" <martin.dubuc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:bdpscg$5jq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I am trying to compile a Java program with ANT, but am experiencing some
> problems.
>
> I am using the M1 3.0 stream stable build.
>
> When I run the javac rule from my build.xml script, I get the following
> message from eclipse:
>
> [javac] BUILD FAILED: file:.../build.xml:30: 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
>
> I am running eclipse on Windows 98. I have set up the JAVA_HOME
> environment variable to point to my J2SDK home directory. I have also
> added tools.jar to the CLASSPATH environment variable. Here is how I
> defined the variables in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:
>
> SET JRE_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\JAVA\JRE1.4.1_03
> SET JAVA_HOME=C:\J2SDK1.4.1_03
> SET CLASSPATH=%JRE_HOME%\LIB\EXT\COMM.JAR;%JAVA_HOME%\LIB\TOOLS.JAR
>
> Martin
>