Could not find tools.jar. Please check that C:\Pro

Question

Even though I manually configured JDK project structure file/Project structure it still shows this error FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

`What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':sample:compileReleaseJavaWithJavac'.

Could not find tools.jar. Please check that C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151 contains a valid JDK installation.`

I'm confused why it is still looking for C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151 instead of JDK

Answer 1

Just had this happen to me.

Apparently Java's automatic updater installed and configured a new version of the JRE for me, while leaving the old JDK intact. So even though I did have a JDK, it didn't match the currently "active" JRE, which was causing the error.

Download a matching version of the JDK to the JRE you currently have installed, (In OP's case 151) That should do the trick.

Answer 2

What I did was I uninstalled Java from my PC, and then downloaded and installed JDK again from Oracle. After this it worked perfectly. I think the problem was because the JRE and JDK update version were different from each other.

Answer 3

What worked for me was updating Android Studio and updating JAVA_HOME and ANDROID_HOME environment variables. I believe it was caused due to the fact that I updated Java Version (through updater) but did not update jdk.

Answer 4

Please make sure both JDK and jre are on same version for example if you have JRE version 1.8.0_201 then JDK version should be 1.8.0_201 version.

Answer 5

My issue was two-fold:

1. I had the JRE installed, but not the JDK.
2. I did not have a JAVA_HOME environment variable set.

Note: I am using Fedora Linux.

To resolve the first issue, I followed these instructions

To resolve the second, I merely added the following line to my ~/.bashrc file:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java/

I had to restart my IDE and terminals to ensure the change to the ~/.bashrc took affect.

Answer 6

At last, here I found the solution.

I added jdk path org.gradle.java.home=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_144 to gradle.properties file and did a rebuild. It works now.