Using Intellij IDEA with current JDK (original) (raw)

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Wed Jan 17 21:15:55 UTC 2018

Hi Andrew, this is a bug in IntelliJ - not sure if it's already fixed in the latest version - you might want to try to update in case you have not done it.

The reason is that IntelliJ used to check for the presence of javah to see if a JDK home was valid - since javah was removed [1], that detection started to act up.

One workaround is to put an empty file called 'javah' in your JDK bin folder :-)

Maurizio

On 17/01/18 16:15, Andrew Haley wrote:

I now always get "The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK". when selecting the JDK home directory.

Does anybody have any idea how to persuade IDEA that we need to work on the current top-of-tree JDK? Thanks.

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