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Add prerequisites for installation #9

Closed kinow closed 3 years ago

kinow commented 3 years ago

Hi!

From https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2791

I am still using Java 8 by default, but have up to Java 15 installed. When I tried java -jar ...jar, I got

$ java -jar v3xt.jar 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: uno/glfw/glfw has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at Main.<init>(Main.java:41)
    at Main.main(Main.java:52)

Couldn't remember what was the 55 class file version, so randomly tried Java 11, and it worked. Checked the class file versions, it looks like that's Java 11, so I've added a section for the prerequisites (only Java for now).

h0bb3 commented 3 years ago

Great! Thanks!