Question

I’m trying to compile my project with “ant build”, but I’m getting this error:

Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar

I searched tools.jar and it is just in /usr/lib/jdk1.7.0_01/lib/tools.jar.

Is a good idea to create a symlink like this below?

ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.7.0_01/lib/tools.jar
/usr/lib/jdk1.7.0_01/lib/tools.jar

Well.. actually I tried to create that symlink, but then I’m getting this error:

BUILD FAILED /home/me/code/StockWatcher/build.xml:29:
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/sun/tools/javac/Main :
Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

So I don’t know if this last error is because the symlink…

Javi

Answer 1

No creating the symlink is not a good idea (mixing two JDKs)

Ant is using the same Java version used to run Ant itself. If you want to use Java 1.7 you should instruct Ant. From the javac Task documentation:

It is possible to use different compilers. This can be specified by
either setting the global build.compiler property, which will affect
all tasks throughout the build, by setting the compiler
attribute, specific to the current task or by using a nested
element of any typedeffed or componentdeffed type that implements
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapter. Valid values
for either the build.compiler property or the compiler attribute are:

• classic (the standard compiler of JDK 1.1/1.2) – javac1.1 and javac1.2
  can be used as aliases.
• modern (the standard compiler of JDK 1.3/1.4/1.5/1.6/1.7) – javac1.3 and javac1.4 and javac1.5 and javac1.6 and javac1.7 (since Ant 1.8.2) can be used as aliases. jikes (the
• Jikes compiler).
• jvc (the Command-Line Compiler from Microsoft’s SDK
  for Java / Visual J++) – microsoft can be used as an alias.
• kjc (the
  kopi compiler).
• gcj (the gcj compiler from gcc).
• sj (Symantec java
  compiler) – symantec can be used as an alias. extJavac (run either
  modern or classic in a JVM of its own).

If you want to use the same Java version as Ant be sure that you installed it correctly (and that you installed the JDK and not only JRE)