Trying to install SBT-0.13.8 for Windows 7 installs SBT version 0.12.4

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I have (multiple times) tried to install SBT-0.13.8 from the SBT download page via the SBT-0.13.8-MSI button and I always end up getting an SBT version which shows the following output

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
[info] Loading project definition from C:\Users\Tina\Desktop\example\project\project
error: error while loading CharSequence, class file 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.
8.0_20\lib\rt.jar(java/lang/CharSequence.class)' is broken (bad constant pool tag 15 at byte 1470)
[error] Type error in expression
Project loading failed: (r)etry, (q)uit, (l)ast, or (i)gnore? i
[warn] Ignoring load failure: no project loaded.
> about
[info] This is sbt 0.12.4
[info] No project is currently loaded
[info] sbt, sbt plugins, and build definitions are using Scala 2.9.2

SBT produces an error message and (!) shows itself as version 0.12.4.!!!

I really made sure that I have no other version of SBT installed and I even made a reboot before re-installing it but nothing changed. SBT files have a creation date of March, 21, 2015. This seems to be the newest version but why does this version show up as 0.12.4 and does not work with JDK1.8?

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1 Answers

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Looks like the directory you're in is wrong, you want to launch sbt from C:\Users\Tina\Desktop\example\project not C:\Users\Tina\Desktop\example\project\project (note 1 project less).

The second problem you're having is you're trying to use sbt 0.12.4 with Java 8. sbt 0.12.4 uses (as can be seen from the output) Scala 2.9.2 which doesn't work with Java 8. I would recommend migrating to sbt 0.13.8, but if not you could always downgrade to Java 7.

Edit after comments below

The progfun Coursera course download is still configured with sbt 0.12.4 which you're having trouble building because you are using Java 8.

I had a quick go at trying to see if upgrading the project to 0.13.8 would work (FYI it involves editing project/build.properties), but then plugins need to be upgraded, then meta-build code needed to be changed because of namespace changes..

Unless you're willing to experiment more and work you're way through the various changes required to use latest sbt and latest Java (which is what I would do if this were for myself), I would recommend as an alternative to:

  1. Downgrade to Java 7

  2. Notify the relevant people involved in running the course that the source material should be updated as it demonstrably does not work on latest, stable Java.

If your default Java is Java 8 but you want to switch to Java 7 for this out-of-date project setup, you need to create an .sbtopts file at the root of the project containing (note: on separate lines!):

-java-home
C:\Users\Tina\PATH\TO\YOUR\JAVA\HOME