Re: Undetected JRE

[Philip Nienhuis]

Personal wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2017, at 2:44 AM, PhilipNienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Bradley Kennedy wrote
> > > > On 2017-12-16, at 23:43, Daryl Lee &lt;
> >
> > > daryl@
> >
> > > &gt; wrote:
> > > > Today I had yet another occasion to build up a Windows workstation from
> > > > scratch.  When I got to the step of installing Octave (4.2.1) the
> > > > installer told me it couldn't fine a Java JRE, even though I have Java
> > > > 9.0.1 installed, as evidenced by the output of
> > > >
> > > > > java -version
> > > >
> > > > Is that anything for me to worry about?  At first glance, it looks normal
> > > > (working GUI, working plots).
> >
> > Issues arise when mixing a 64-bit Octave with a 32-bit JRE, or vice versa.
> > Did you check that?
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> I was careful to select 64-bit everything, and installed in the
> default location.  I guess I’ll deal with the issue if and when it
> becomes an issue.

The other thing is that jvm.dll can be in
<Java install dir>\jre<version>\bin\server
for 64-bit Java but in
<Java install dir>\jre<ersion>\bin\client
for 32-bit Java. I used to copy the contents of ...\client\ to ...\server\

But I think these days that issue has been solved.

Philip