While trying to set up Gradle, a software develpment build automation tool, on a Microsoft Windows 10 system, when I ran the gradle.bat file in the gradle bin directory, I saw the message below:
C:\Users\Jim\Downloads\gradle-7.5.1-bin\gradle-7.5.1\bin>gradle.bat ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation. C:\Users\Jim\Downloads\gradle-7.5.1-bin\gradle-7.5.1\bin>
I had installed Java with the
Eclipse
integrated development environment (IDE) previously and the java.exe
executable was installed beneath the
C:\Users\Jim\.p2\pool\plugins\org.eclipse.justj.openjdk.hotspot.jre.full.win32.x86_64_18.0.1.v20220515-1614\jre\
directory, so I created a JAVA_HOME
environment
variable pointing to that directory that applied to all accounts on the
system. You can create a temporary JAVA_HOME environment variable for the
account under which you are currently logged in from a
command line
interface (CLI) as noted at
Running java from an Eclipse
installation from the command line, but I wanted to create a permanent
environment variable so I typed advanced system settings in
the Windows "Type here to search" field and then clicked on View
advanced system settings when I saw that listed.
You will need to provide authorization credentials for an administrator account to modify the settings. When you do so, under the Advanced tab for System Properties, you will see an Environment Variables button.
When you click on the Environment Variables button, you will see the environment variables for the administrator account you are using at the top of the window and the system environment variables that apply to all accounts on the system at the bottom.
If you click on New, you can create a new system varible.
I set JAVA_HOME to be the jre directory beneath the Eclipse installaton,
i.e.,
C:\Users\Jim\.p2\pool\plugins\org.eclipse.justj.openjdk.hotspot.jre.full.win32.x86_64_18.0.1.v20220515-1614\jre\.
I could then see a new system variable, in this case JAVA_HOME, in the System Variables section of the environment variables.
After you have created the new environment variable you want, you can click
on OK to close the window. When I opened a new
command prompt window and
issued the command echo %java_home%, I could see the path
for that variable. Note, you won't see a new environment variable in a command
prompt window you already have open.
C:\Users\Jim>echo %java_home% C:\Users\Jim\.p2\pool\plugins\org.eclipse.justj.openjdk.hotspot.jre.full.win32.x86_64_18.0.1.v20220515-1614\jre\ C:\Users\Jim>
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