Visual Code will not build a Java project; terminal precludes building

Technical Programming
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I recently started using Visual Code because FRC had stopped supporting Eclipse.

Right off the bat, the code would not build, instead giving me this:

> Executing task: gradlew build -Dorg.gradle.java.home=“C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.2” <
The terminal process terminated with exit code: 2

So, following the advice of other forums and GitHub issues pages, I found that changing my java.home path would be helpful.

It was set at default, yet now it is set as the JDK file in my program files in the C: directory.

I am at the end of my rope and am running out of options for getting Java to build on this computer, seeing as the JDK/JRE settings are all optimal and updated.

Any help would be amazing!

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Did you use the offline installer? The installer puts a JDK into C:\Users\Public\frc2019 for you.

3

I changed the path to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.2 after receiving the output above.

4

We’ve sometimes seen this issue with bad JDK installs. Can you try removing C:\Users\Public\frc2019 and re-running the WPILib offline installer?

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I also ran into this issue and haven’t been able to fix it. You can still build, you just have to copy and paste the command gradlew build -Dorg.gradle.java.home=“C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.2” text into the terminal (you will see a plus button in the top right of the terminal window). Also, expect the Java language support to crash a lot in vscode. By this I mean you might experience autocomplete no longer working and the wpilib libraries will stop being recognized. Restarting VScode usually fixes that issue.