When I run my Ant build in Eclipse, I'm getting the following error message and the Ant build fails.
Error Message: Error running javac.exe compiler
Line where the build stops:
<javac destdir="${classes.home}" debug="on" fork="true" memoryinitialsize="512M" memorymaximumsize="1G">
<classpath refid="classpath"/>
<src path="${source.home}"/>
</javac>
Has anyone faced a similar problem before? or does anybody know what's wrong here?
System Information: Eclipse Helio, JDK 1.5
I had the same problem and the issue was, in eclipse java.home was referring to JRE instead of JDK. I changed it and the build was successful. You can do the following to change it to JDK:
Preferences > Java > Installed JRE's > Add... For 'JRE Type' select 'Standard VM' > Next > Directory: select your JDK directory (instead of JRE) (in my case: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_16 ), press OK.
Now, you are back at 'Installed JRE's', select the JDK here also.
The below post helped in finding the solution. JAVA_HOME points to the wrong place