Using Intellij IDEA with current JDK

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

And here's a link to the Intellij issue:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-183920

Says it should be in 2017.3.2, which is what I've got, so I think an 
update should fix the problem for you.

Maurizio


On 17/01/18 21:16, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Whoops - forgot
>
> [1] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193503 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193503>
>
>
> On 17/01/18 21:15, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>> this is a bug in IntelliJ - not sure if it's already fixed in the 
>> latest version - you might want to try to update in case you have not 
>> done it.
>>
>> The reason is that IntelliJ used to check for the presence of javah 
>> to see if a JDK home was valid - since javah was removed [1], that 
>> detection started to act up.
>>
>> One workaround is to put an empty file called 'javah' in your JDK bin 
>> folder :-)
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
>>
>> On 17/01/18 16:15, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> I now always get "The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK".
>>> when selecting the JDK home directory.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any idea how to persuade IDEA that we need to work
>>> on the current top-of-tree JDK?  Thanks.
>>>
>>
>