Installing Bazel on Mac OS X, Java 1.8.0 installed, but Installer complains Java cannot be found

[philia]

I followed the instructions on the Bazel installation page (http://bazel.io/docs/install.html), installed Java 1.8.0 and confirmed the XCode version. But when I tried to run ./bazel-0.1.3-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh --user, it gives me the error message "Java not found, please install the corresponding package".

Has anyone had a similar issue? Do I need to update the path for Java?

[Damien Martin-guillerez]

What does `/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8+` returns? and `echo "$JAVA_HOME"`?

If those does not point to your java home, you can simply export JAVA_HOME to the good path.

 

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:04 AM philia <lisa...@stanford.edu> wrote:

I followed the instructions on the Bazel installation page (http://bazel.io/docs/install.html), installed Java 1.8.0 and confirmed the XCode version. But when I tried to run ./bazel-0.1.3-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh --user, it gives me the error message "Java not found, please install the corresponding package".

Has anyone had a similar issue? Do I need to update the path for Java?

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[lisa...@stanford.edu]

'export JAVA_HOME' fixed it. Thanks a lot!

[tch...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 12:04:16 AM UTC-8, philia wrote:
> I followed the instructions on the Bazel installation page (http://bazel.io/docs/install.html), installed Java 1.8.0 and confirmed the XCode version. But when I tried to run ./bazel-0.1.3-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh --user, it gives me the error message "Java not found, please install the corresponding package".
>
> Has anyone had a similar issue? Do I need to update the path for Java?

I encountered the same issue and here is my fix

Add this to your ~/.bashrc file and source it before running compile.sh
export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/"

Note I searched for this issue and somewhere else it was telling me to do this.
export JAVA_HOME='/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home'

Even thought this will make " java -version" returns 1.8 there is no javac under this directory and also the space in the directory name will break the compile.sh script.

So use the first JAVA_HOME without the space in the directory name.