Re: Java

[Ian McCallion]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for responding. So far setting JAVA_HOME has not worked, but
reading the bug report, maybe the problem is that I'm using 64bit
windows and Octave, and 32bit java. I'm going to try installing 64bit
java and will let you know how I get on.

Cheers... Ian

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 15:21, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:08 AM Ian McCallion <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm on Windows 10.
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>> The Octave 5.1.0 installer warns me that java is not installed and yet
>> version jre1.8.0_201 is in plain view on disk, and I have a java
>> application that works. (As I recall it past Octave versions also
>> never found java but I have not needed it so far)
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>> How does Octave determine if java is present?
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>> Cheers... Ian
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> look at the following bug report guided me: 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40111 .The solution is to 
> setenv("JAVA_HOME","pathTo/Java64/bin/server");
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> DAS
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