Ant + Vista 64 : “Unable to locate tools.jar” (jre/jdk conflict?)

Question

I\'m trying to use ant in a vista 64 environment to build some docbook/xml files.

However, I can\'t resolve this error message. Anybody have suggestions?

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Answer 1

I had this issue with Environment as :

• Windows 7
• Java version jdk1.6.0_33
• apache-ant-1.6.5

I Was getting ant build message as "Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in E:\Java\jre6\lib\tools.jar", where my JDK was installed at E:\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\ and JRE at E:\Java\jre6\

Cause:

My issue was that I have ANT_HOME was set twice in the PATH system Environment variable at two different places (means some other variables in between).

Solution:

I removed the ANT_HOME variable that pointed to the wrong location and everything worked fine with me.