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

[Yves <yves@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another possibility is to add the <javac > attribute 
"executable=D:/path/to/javac.exe"

Darin Swanson wrote:
> 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