Failed to run JAVA even though path is set on Windows 8 Enterprise - Cordova

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Question

I have made a new Ionic / Cordova project and I'm trying to build it on windows 8.1. I installed JDK and JRE 7 as well as android sdk and ant and added them to my path using the following instructions.

cordova platform add android not working while listing Android targets

When I execute ionic platform add android or cordova I am still getting the following error:

C:\Users\BogdanR\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\node_modules\q\q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error: Failed to run 'java -version', make sure your java environment is set up
including JDK and JRE.
Your JAVA_HOME variable is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51
Error: Command failed: 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.


    at C:\Users\BogdanR\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\lib\check_reqs.js:62:22
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:641:7)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:956:11)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Pipe.close (net.js:466:12)
Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 8
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\nodist\bin\node_modules\cordova\src\superspawn.js:112:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)
Unable to add platform android. Please see console for more info.

I tried modifying both system variables and user PATH variables.

THE WEIRD THING is that I can type in java -version and it works:

java version "1.7.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

I am using nodist to manage npm if that is of any relevance.

Was it helpful?

Solution 5

There was a bad entry in the path that corrupted my whole system path.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn";C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;

Seems like that quotation mark is an entry added by SQL Server installation or web platform. I never added those to the path so it might be the installers fault?

OTHER TIPS

After I ran into the same issue, the following steps seems to have fixed it:

  • PATH needs to contain the bin folder of the Java installation path C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\bin make sure the bin is included
  • JAVA_HOME needs to be set to the root of that Java installation folder, in my case C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05

In my case, i had multiple java instalations, and whenever i tried to print "echo %java_home%" command on command prompt, it always used to return "%java_home%" as it is.

So i uninstalled all the java versions and then installed it again, and whoola, it worked.

Hope this helps someone.

There is one thing you can try is to set this variable JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\bin

Since you are using Windows, you can go to Control Panel to update it.

You were able to run java -version probably because it's included in the User's path.

In my case, It said "JAVA_HOME variable is unvalid, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51". Then I added a quotation mark to JAVA_HOME. Just like "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51". Finally It works. May This can be helpful

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