Cordova Requirements check failed for JDK 1 8 or greater

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I am using Cordova 6 4 0 in Windows 7 OS  but I get this error once I tried to build the android version      The Java Home variable  is setted correctly to the JDK path  but I don t know why I am getting this issue  Any suggestions please

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I m using windows and having two jdk 1 8 and 14 version something      Faced same issue and after some debugging find the solution    set JAVA HOME correctly  Change the user variable PATH value with new jdk  1 8  version  Change the user variable PATH value with new jdk  1 8  version    And it solved

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In Linux  Debian Ubuntu  this can be solved by selecting a Java 1 8 SDK in  sudo update-alternatives --config javac   Changing JAVA HOME env variable directly does not seem to have any effect   EDIT  responding to the comments  This probably has something to do with the fact that new Debian  and apparently Ubuntu  Java installations through the package manager do not use the JAVA HOME enviroment variable to determine the location of the JRE  See this and this post for more info

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I agree with  Hozington   This should be the bug on Cordova code of detecting Java version   What I did is    Keep the JDK 10 Install the JDK 8 Change the JAVA HOME to the path of JDK 8  and change the path variable as well  restart the  cmd  and run cordova build again    And the error disappeared

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Uninstalling older versions of JDK would have worked  But it may be a workaround i guess  I faced the same issue and noticed that both new version of JDK and older version JDK path has been mentioned in  path  environmental variable   Removing the older version JDK path from  path  environmental variable did the trick for me  Hope it helps someone too

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Just make sure that same JDK versions i e  1 8 in this case  are accessible from PATH environment variable and JAVA HOME  Example  If JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 152 then  PATH variable should also contain above path and importantly before any  if there are any  other path of if JDK JRE already mentioned in the PATH variable  You may choose to uninstall other versions if no other application is using different version of java

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Guys to get the mix right on Windows  you need to do the following   Download and install any version of JDK 1 8 or higher  Open environment variables  create an environment variable called JAVA HOME and set value to JDK install path  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 162 make sure you do not add the  bin in the value       In your system path variable  put a semi-colon   and add this value to system path e g C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 162 bin  Here the  bin is added       Note  The environment variables are tricky They are supposed to be closed by a   before opening another  That is why we put one before adding the value and one after the value to close it        Now close terminal and reopen then run previous commands

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I dicovered that my path environmental variable was pointing to java 1 7 while JAVA HOME was pointing to 1 8  so i edited the path variable to 1 8 and i was fine

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Sometimes changing the path and java-home does not work  You need to add  C  Users  your user  AppData Local Android Sdk platform-tools C  Users  your user  AppData Local Android Sdk tools   to the environmental variable path as well

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I just renamed older JDK folder with    just in case if I need it further  and it worked   C  Program Files  x86  Java  jdk1 7 0 40  C  Program Files  x86  Java  jre7

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I faced the same issue with jdk1 8 0 201 It got resolved when I made JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 201 and added  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 201 bin  in path variable

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MacOS answer with multiple Java versions installed and no need to uninstall Show me what versions of Java I have installed     ls -l  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines   To set it to my jdk1 8 version     ln -s  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 8 0 261 jdk Contents Home bin javac  usr local bin javac  To set it to my jdk11 version     ln -s  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk-11 0 7 jdk Contents Home bin javac  usr local bin javac  ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that  despite what the message says  it appears that it means that it wants version 1 8  and throws this message if you have a later version  What follows is my earlier attempts which lead me to the above answer  which then worked     You might need to do something different depending on what s installed  so maybe these notes might help    Set it to my jdk1 8 version   export PATH  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk-11 0 7 jdk Contents Home bin javac  PATH  Set it to my jdk11 version   export PATH  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 8 0 261 jdk Contents Home bin javac  PATH      but actually that doesn t work because  usr bin javac is still what runs first     which javac  usr bin javac      to see what runs first on the path     cat  etc paths  usr local bin  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  That means I can override the  usr bin javac     see the commands at the top of the answer     The command to set it to jdk1 8 using ln  at the top of this answer  is what worked for me

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This error message make user confuse  the success screen as below   The error message make user try to fix the build fail with JAVA HOME config  But the real problem is not just in the JAVA HOME   I fix this problem with correct config in JAVA HOME and Path in  system variable     Hope can help to fix the problem  but not re-install JDK

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The Ubuntu Debian Linux version of this answer is to install openjdk 8 and set the default via update-alternatives    install  open jdk 8 sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-8-jdk    update java compiler and set to 1 8 update-alternatives --config javac    update java runtime  optional  update-alternatives --config java    Also set  JAVA HOME and  PATH to your  bashrc  optional  echo  export JAVA HOME  usr lib jvm java-8-openjdk-amd64   gt  gt     bashrc echo  export PATH  quot  PATH  JAVA HOME bin   gt  gt     bashrc    load in current bash session source    bashrc

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The answer posted by MadNeox is correct I was facing a similar issue I had jdk 9 installed as well as the 1 8 version   I first tried by keeping jdk 9 and removing 1 8 it would display an error Requirements check failed  Then I tried by uninstalling jdk9 and reinstalling 1  this time it was showing failed to run javac-version  After playing around with the Environment variables for some time I finally got the solution   At this point my system only has jdk 1 8 Cordova version 7 1 0  -Open Environment Variables tab -Under user variables create a new variable PATH -give it the following value C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 151 bin   might change depending on where you have installed your jdk   This should solve your problem  Hope it helps   Although the answer was already given it did take me some time to figure out where I was going wrong so decided to post this hoping it would save someone else s time

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if you have many version of JDK you can run  export JAVA HOME   usr local env java jdk1 8 0 131 jdk Contents Home     before cordova build  to use a specific version of jdk

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It seems the Android SDK don t support Java 9  Downgrade to 8 if you dont want to go all the way back to JDK 1 8 which to me is ridiculous  JDK 8 work for me but be sure to set the JAVA HOME environment variable to the location of your JDK installation correctly

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Today I also got this error Cordova   Requirements check failed for JDK 1 8 or greater in my Mac OS while build Ionic App when I run command ionic cordova build --release android via terminal   Below command resolve my issue  -  export JAVA HOME   Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 8 0 231 jdk Contents Home    Hope it will help someone in future

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It s an old question  but since i just had the same problem  but the error had another source  here a short answer   Problem accured on Windows  only  and with the Webstorm IDE 2019 2  In the version 2019 2 Webstorm had an issue  because it internally used open jdk for the  JAVA HOME  variable instead of the  from the os  targeted java jdk   In my case  yeah it s old  it s an old cordova project        executing java -version in Windows cmd exe     java -version java version  1 8 0 221    but executing java -version in Webstorms terminal     java -version openjdk version  11 0 3  2019-04-16    more output   A fix came with the patch released later  today   version 2019 2 1  Now Webstorm uses the os  JAVA HOME  variable as it should and the java -version output is identical in both cases   Hope it helps someone

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Go to Control panel Home Advanced System Settings Environment Variables Choose JAVA HOME edit variable value for the 1 8 one

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in my case JAVA HOME was pointing to C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 55  when i wrote where java in cmd it outputted C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 55 along side with java exe path i ve changed the JAVA HOME variable from environment variables to C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 20  amp  it worked  so it seems i had 2 jdk instances  amp  cordova needs the v1 8   one

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As per official Cordova documentation it supports only JDK 1 8 not greater till the date  April 2018   Or there might be problem with version detection script within cordova   Cordova  Installing the requirements

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I was running into the same problem yesterday with my new laptop  all new installation   with the only execption that for me Cordova said  Requirements check failed for JDK 8   1 8      Detected version  null  That Detected version  null was the actual problem for me  When looking into the check reqs js  as mentioned in a post above  you will notice that this is where the magic happens  It contains a function  quot check java quot  that  at some point  uses  quot execa quot  to retrieve the installed version of Java  return execa  javac     -version      all  true         then    all  output      gt               Java  lt   8 writes version info to stderr  Java  gt   9 to stdout         const match    javac s    d     i exec output           return match  amp  amp  match 1          The problem for me was that  for whatever reason  I had an outdated version of  quot execa quot  which does not contain the  quot all quot  property that was used for the output  Hence  the retrieved version of Java was always undefined  By adding  quot execa quot    quot  4 0 2 quot  to my dependencies in the package json and running  quot npm i quot  again I was able to fix this problem  Just wanted to share this insight

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The error occurs when the default path to java is set to a version other than Java 8 or JDK 1 8   For my case  I have installed Java 11 after installing Java 8 You can test by running  java -version  For my case it returned  java version  quot 11 0 8 quot  2020-07-14 LTS Java TM  SE Runtime Environment 18 9  build 11 0 8 10-LTS  Java HotSpot TM  64-Bit Server VM 18 9  build 11 0 8 10-LTS  mixed mode   To fix this  we need to ensure the java path is pointed to Java 8 binaries instead Assuming you already have Java 8 or JDK 1 8   installed   Make sure JAVA HOME and JRE HOME is set  make sure it points to Java 1 8       Inside PATH  Make sure  JAVA HOME  bin or C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 251 bin is added    Source of the problem  My JDK 11 installation added two PATH entries right at the top  taking precedence or overriding the  JAVA HOME  bin PATH that points to JDK 1 8    Do not add these if you don t have them  find other PATH entries that may override  JAVA HOME  bin   Click  quot Move Down quot  for the overriding entries until they are below  JAVA HOME  bin   JAVA HOME  bin PATH that points to Java 8 will now be prioritized over the other PATH entries that points to JDK 11   Save  and open a new terminal and run  java -version  For my case it then returned  java version  quot 1 8 0 251 quot  Java TM  SE Runtime Environment  build 1 8 0 251-b08  Java HotSpot TM  64-Bit Server VM  build 25 251-b08  mixed mode   Fixed

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if you have multiple Java versions installed and need to keep those  you need to check following things    JAVA HOME pointing to your jdk1 8 in your PATH variable you need to check that jdk1 8 bin path is before the other jdk bin paths

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I have  Open JDK 8 and 11 installed on Windows 10 and I had the same problem  For me the following worked    Set JAVA HOME to point to JDK 8   Mentioned in many answers before   AND Remove    JDK 11 from the PATH as it turned out that -- although displaying the JAVA HOME path pointing to JDK 8 -- Cordova actually accessed JDK 11 that was included in the PATH  which made the Java version check fail

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If you have both jdk8 and jdk9 installed  you have to check wich version is   in the path and where JAVA HOME is pointing to   In the log you posted  I see that JAVA HOME is leading to the JDK9   modify your globel JAVA HOME env var to target JDK8 or you can change JAVA HOME in powershell before you use the cordova CLI if you want to use jdk8 only for cordova    env JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 151     cordova build android

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You may have a version that is greater than 8 but Cordova only supports JDK 1 8  View this link Cordova Documentation  I took a look at the piece of code that actually checks for the version number of your java  Look for the following  module exports check java in platforms android cordova lib check reqs js  on line 220  You will see a regex and comment left by the team that Java 10 will be supported in the future   The existing regular expression will fail when it is run against the latest versions of java such as Java 10  That is because Java 8 or 9 are saved in the following format  1  8-9     but Java 10 is saved as 10    and the regular expression looks for a version in the format 1  8-9          Let s check for at least Java 8  and keep it future proof so we can support Java 10 var match    javac     1       8-9        d        1       1-9  d        d    i exec output     My solution   You don t have to uninstall your current version of the JRE or JDK since the installer installs each version in a specific folder   1- Install version Java 8 Follow this link  2- Update your environment variables    JAVA HOME if you installed the JDK JRE HOME if you installed the JRE   by pointing them to the location where the JRE 8 and JDK 8 were installed        On my machine    C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 171    JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 171    JRE HOME   Open a new terminal session and run the command that was failing  It should work now   Did not work   Should it fail for other reasons  possible debugging process    Ensure the JAVA HOME and JRE HOME variables are System variables  Ensure they are added to your User s Path Add variables to Path

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MAC  Navigate to   Library Java JavaVirtualMachines Make sure you are having only jdk1 8 0 201 jdk If you have many then remove other JDK

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You don t have to uninstall any higher version of sdk  just install jdk1 8 0 161 or don t if it is already install  Now just set the JAVA HOME USER variable  not system variable  as shown in the below image   This way you don t have to uninstall higher version and the problem get resolved

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What worked for was uninstalling jdk 9 and reinstalling jkd 8 x  On Mac in order to uninstall go to the terminal and follow this steps   cd  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines  sudo rm -rf jdk-9 0 1 jdk   Then install the jdk 8 x by downloading the  dmg package from Oracle

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Uninstall all previous JDK including 1 8 Install JDK 1 8

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