[evosoft]

After latest update 2023, Ant is not working anymore. It tells I need to have JAVA > 11, but our projects need to be build in 1.8.

How to solve it?

[Brian Fernandes]

With changes in the Ant runtime shipped with MyEclipse, you do need to run Ant with Java 11 or higher. However, with a modification to your build.xml you can still generate Java 8 bytecode.

In the javac task, please add source="1.8" target="1.8" to generate Java 8 bytecode. You can also specify fork="true" executable="[path to javac executable" to compile with a specific JDK.

Some additional notes can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75336081/running-ant-tasks-in-eclipse-with-java-1-8-lead-to-jre-version-less-than-11-is

Apologies for the additional work required; we do have to move to using more recent version of tools like Ant which may have higher Java version requirements. Do let us know if this works for you.

[evosoft]

Yes, it helps.
Thanks.

[Brian Fernandes]

Just wanted to let you know that we released an update, 2023.1.1, in which we’ve addressed this issue. You can now launch Ant with Java 8 again, and will not need to use the additional attributes I suggested above. Thanks again for the report.

More on the 2023.1.1 release here.

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