Netbeans 6.x on Windows Vista x64

Dace · 10 May 2008 at 21:38

Evening Chaps.

Do any of you have any experience getting Netbeans 6 installed on a Vista x64-based system?

I've been reading around the subject for a couple of hours and had no luck getting my programming environment up and running.

If anyone here has managed to get this working, please enlighten me as to what needs doing.

JDK Version: jdk-6u6-windows-x64
Netbeans Version: 6.1 (initially installer, then zip version, tried editing the config file to correct path but still no joy).

Help appreciated

Greenlizard0 · 10 May 2008 at 22:06

I had massive incompatibilities (as it turns out) running it on Vista 64. I ended up having to run it elsewhere just to do work.

Dace · 10 May 2008 at 22:20

Greenlizard0 said:
I had massive incompatibilities (as it turns out) running it on Vista 64. I ended up having to run it elsewhere just to do work.

I'm getting there slowly.

Just worked out I had to manually edit the env settings so that the java compilers are working, now I just get a bonkers error message when running Netbeans "jdk 5.0 or newer cannot be found" (even though the env settings are set to 1.6).

I might get there eventually lol

Greenlizard0 · 10 May 2008 at 22:45

If you can try run Unix (Exceed) I think it is, through Windows - that's what I do at uni.

Dace · 10 May 2008 at 23:10

Just managed to get it up and running on Vista x64, total time to install it... about 3-3.5 hours (mostly spent going in circles on Google).

For the record in case anyone else runs into this problem:

1) set the environment variables manually after you install the jdk (google for details)
2) ignore advice about downloading the standalone zip file, once you've got your java paths set up correctly just run the installer as administrator