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I am trying to follow a tutorial about how to use ant to build and run your application. I’ve followed all the steps and have created the build file, but when I try to run ant it gives me this error.
BUILD FAILED
/home/bilal/tmp/ant/build.xml:19: 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 “/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre”
Any ideas how to resolve this issue ?
Make JAVA_HOME variable point to a jdk installation, not jre.
You are referencing the runtime environment, not the development kit – it can’t find the compiler because its not there.
From the line you posted, which states you have open-jdk you can just remove the jre at end: