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Subject: Re: Problem compiling with 9 for 8
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:25:45 -0400
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On 10/2/2017 11:51 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I want to compile this program with the Java 9 compiler but with but 
> with the --release 8 option so that it will run on a Java 8 runtime. The 
> --add-modules option is not available if the --release options is 
> specified.  Anybody know what the solution is?  Am I going at this the 
> wrong way?
> 
> C:\Users\Knute Johnson>javac --release 8 -Xlint:unchecked -cp 
> .;com/knutejohnson
> /rosen/javax.mail.jar com/knutejohnson/rosen/PHD2Alarms.java
> .\com\knutejohnson\rosen\AlarmDialog2.java:9: error: package 
> javafx.scene.media
> does not exist
> import javafx.scene.media.*;
> ^
> .\com\knutejohnson\rosen\AlarmDialog2.java:60: error: cannot find symbol
>          AudioClip clip = null;
>          ^
>    symbol:   class AudioClip
>    location: class AlarmDialog2

Have you tried putting Java 8 jfxrt.jar explicit in classpath?

Arne