Android Question Source Option 6 no longer supported use 7 or later

[Backalife]

Hello everyone happy to be a newcomer to the B4X Community.
I just installed B4A for the very first time on a Windows 10 x64 computer and trying to debug my little Hello World app but run into a problem preventing it to compile using the bridge to my device, it is probably related to the jdk saying:

Source Option 6 no longer supported use 7 or later

the same issue could have been encountered in the past in this older thread

iOS Question - Source option error: 6 is no longer supported, use 7 or later

I get this error when running debug on a project: B4i Version: 5.80 Parsing code. (0.56s) Building folders structure. (0.21s) Compiling code. (2.64s) Compiling layouts code. (0.07s) Compiling debugger engine code. Error error: Source option 6 is no longer supported. Use 7 or...

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the thread says to use Java 8 or 11, but I am using Java 8 and jdk 14 as shown in the attachment.

Thank you.

 

[DonManfred]

Looks like you have java 14 installed. It will not work with this java

I suggest to install a new sdk: https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html
Follow the instructions carefully and it will just work.

 

[Backalife]

Hurray!! worked like a charm.
That also sorted out the other problem of SDK Manager window that opens now.
Thank you DonManfred, your help is much appreciated.

 

[Jakes72]

Hi Guys,

I still get this error:
'Source Option 6 no longer supported use 7 or later'

Even though I have downloaded the java here:

https://www.b4x.com/b4j/files/java/jdk-14.0.1.zip

I then made a folder for it in 'c:\program files\java' and pointed my B4i paths configuration 'javac.exe' to:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.1\bin\javac.exe

I am running Windows 11 Pro.
Any ideas help please?

Many thanks,
Jacques.

 

[DonManfred]

Hi Guys,

I still get this error

you are still in the Android-Forum here. So you are in the wrong forum for B4I questions