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• JDK1.8 Snapshot release
• Ant 1.8.2
• Mercurial 1.8.2
• Cygwin (for Linux commands on Windows)

You will need to ensure that the command path is set up correctly. The java and javac commands should come from the JDK8 bundle by preference (current build minimum is JDK7). On some Linux systems, OpenJDK6 may be the system default. Use the '-version' switch to check each of java, javac and ant to verify the versions in your path, for example

# ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 3 2011

Here is the recipe for building OpenJFX (use a Cygwin shell on Windows):

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