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Feedback on migration_toolkit 55 - "Installing on Windows"

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Summary

I've spent quite a while trying to get MTK working on Windows...

  • The first error was: 64 bit java not found. so I installed the latest JRE from Adoptium
  • That didn't seem to hep so I uninstalled the the 32bit JRE I already had and installed the latest 64bit version from Oracle
  • When I tried again things were worse, with this error: Unable to find JRE in path.
  • I checked the PATH and JAVA_HOME env vars and they seemed fine
  • I spent some time with RegEdit checking and setting various keys but that made no difference
  • Finally I was clicking around in the MTK installation directory and found a file called edbmtk-55.config in etc\sysconfig\
  • That file has a config setting in it called JAVA_EXECUTABLE_PATH - I set that and it worked

The Windows installation instructions say:

The Java executable must be in your search path (%PATH% on Windows)

...which may be true, I suppose, but it makes no mention of the config file and that appears to be crucial.

Where did you see the problem?

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/docs/blob/main/product_docs/docs/migration_toolkit/55/installing/windows.mdx

Expected behavior

The installation instructions should include information about changing the JRE path in the etc\sysconfig\edbmtk-<version>.config file.

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Browser / Platform

Windows 11

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