I am installing B4a for the first time ( license copy) and proceeding via the B4x booklets
I downloaded "JAVA jdk-8u172 windows-X64-demos.zip" as per instructions but there is no .exe file to install it that I can find
The JAVA site takes me "jre-8u171-windows-i586.exe" which installs JAVA into programs(X86) but there is no javac.exe in this file
Yours in confusion.How do you install it please.
Thanks for that but I am still not there. The B4x booklets actually points to the "JAVA jdk-8u172 windows-X64-demos.zip" file not the exe, which is on the video
Also there is no javac.exe file in the bin folder, only the following.
because you are selecting the wrong folder. You are looking in the JRE folder but the Instructions tell you to use the JDK Path. <---- Check the comment here! JDK1.8.x_xx\bin
Looks like you skipped step #1 from https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html, Java JDK v8 (as of this time). If you install the 32 bit version of the JDK, javac.exe will be located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_xxx\bin , for the 64 bit version the location will be C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_xxx\bin (this is assuming that you accepted the default locations for the install), where xxx is the number after the u in the JDK installation file (currently, for 32 bit, jdk-8u171-windows-i586.exe, so 171).
For some reason the original installation did not install the JDK folder. I used the JAVA unistall tool to delete all old copies, reinstalled and all is now good.. Nothing like a good sleep and some sage advise... Thanks