Javac is not found

Question

I'm running Windows 8 and I can not get javac to work.

I have set my PATH in environmental variables to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_17\bin

I have tried both with and without ';' but to no avail.

I recently had this issue on my desktop and adding ; worked but it's not in this case.

I have made sure that javac does exist in the bin too.

Any suggestions on fixes would be greatly appreciated.

EDITS echo %PATH% gives:

C:\Users\Arktri\Desktop>echo %PATH%  C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\; C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\; C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows; C:\Windows\System32\Wbem; C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\; C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x86; C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x64; C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL; C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT; C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL; C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;; C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin 

And the exact error is: 'javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 1

As far as I can see you have the JRE in your PATH, but not the JDK.

From a command prompt try this:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_17\bin 

Then try javac again - if this works you'll need to permanently modify your environment variables to have PATH include the JDK too.