Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Missing javac Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:33:33 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <93bbd3d7-9b1a-44f5-9a2d-7bc0074dc8df@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34896 On 7/14/2016 6:09 PM, Lew wrote: > On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 2:40:27 PM UTC-7, Steve Graham wrote: >> So you don't think I should report this? Why? > > Because it was your error, not theirs. > > "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_91" is not the JDK. IF that was your > default Java installation, it did not include "javac". You need to > configure your system to use the JDK, not the JRE. > > You kept talking about installing the "NetBeans/Java 8 SDK". Your > problem was not with NetBeans, it was with Java. You should be > installing Java from the Oracle site. He had: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\bin C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\bin so it was installed. Just not in PATH. Arne