Ant: Class not found: javac1.8

Question

I am trying to build a project using Ant in eclipse. I right-clicked on build.xml > Run As > Ant Build. However, I am getting the following error:

BUILD FAILED
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Answer 1

I already did some extensive googling before asking this question but continuing that I found a solution here: This issue seems to only appear when using JDK 1.8 so using JDK 1.7 instead solves the problem. The following line needs to be added to eclipse.ini:

-vm "path-to-jdk-1.7\bin\javaw.exe"