# Processing Export Fails No Matter What

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-export-fails-no-matter-what/13364>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-export-fails-no-matter-what/13364 "2019-08-13T22:12:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![8bit\_coder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/c77e96/32.png) [@8bit\_coder](https://discourse.processing.org/u/8bit_coder)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-export-fails-no-matter-what/13364/1 "2019-08-13T22:12:42Z")

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I tried everything that people have suggested, such as moving the sketch and/or the processing files into the root C:\ directory and that did nothing. I have no idea why this is happening because the program runs fine but any program that I try to export does this. I checked and the windres.exe is a valid file in the processing directory so I don’t know why it’s failing. Any help? Thanks. Log:

```auto
Compiling resources
The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\processing-3.5.3-windows64\processing-3.5.3\modes\java\application\launch4j\bin\windres.exe: preprocessing failed.
Generated resource file...

LANGUAGE 0, 1
2 RCDATA BEGIN "1.8.0_74\0" END
18 RCDATA BEGIN "1\0" END
30 RCDATA BEGIN "2\0" END
12 RCDATA BEGIN "-Djna.nosys=true -Djava.library.path=""%EXEDIR%\\lib""\0" END
1 ICON DISCARDABLE "C:\\processing-3.5.3-windows64\\processing-3.5.3\\modes\\java\\application\\sketch.ico"
21 RCDATA BEGIN "http://java.com/download\0" END
20 RCDATA BEGIN "32\0" END
101 RCDATA BEGIN "An error occurred while starting the application.\0" END
102 RCDATA BEGIN "This application was configured to use a bundled Java Runtime Environment but the runtime is missing or corrupted.\0" END
103 RCDATA BEGIN "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment\0" END
104 RCDATA BEGIN "The registry refers to a nonexistent Java Runtime Environment installation or the runtime is corrupted.\0" END
15 RCDATA BEGIN "sketch_190813a\0" END
16 RCDATA BEGIN "lib\\sketch_190813a.jar;lib\\core.jar;lib\\jogl-all.jar;lib\\gluegen-rt.jar;lib\\jogl-all-natives-windows-i586.jar;lib\\gluegen-rt-natives-windows-i586.jar;lib\\gstreamer-java.jar;lib\\jna.jar;lib\\video.jar\0" END

windows:

BUILD FAILED
C:\sketch_190813a\application.windows32\launch4j-build.xml:5: net.sf.launch4j.BuilderException: net.sf.launch4j.ExecException: Exec failed (1): C:\processing-3.5.3-windows64\processing-3.5.3\modes\java\application\launch4j\bin\windres.exe --preprocessor=type -J rc -O coff -F pe-i386 C:\Users\8BIT_C~1\AppData\Local\Temp\launch4j5369524893352527775rc C:\Users\8BIT_C~1\AppData\Local\Temp\launch4j4291369801357606489o
	at net.sf.launch4j.Builder.build(Builder.java:149)
	at net.sf.launch4j.ant.Launch4jTask.execute(Launch4jTask.java:111)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaBuild.buildWindowsLauncher(JavaBuild.java:1231)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaBuild.exportApplication(JavaBuild.java:1102)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaBuild.exportApplication(JavaBuild.java:713)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaMode.handleExportApplication(JavaMode.java:239)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaEditor.exportApplicationPrompt(JavaEditor.java:945)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaEditor.handleExportApplication(JavaEditor.java:575)
	at processing.mode.java.JavaEditor$3.actionPerformed(JavaEditor.java:198)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:376)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:842)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:886)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6539)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6304)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2239)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2297)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4904)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4535)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4476)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2283)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:760)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:84)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:733)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:730)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:205)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
Caused by: net.sf.launch4j.ExecException: Exec failed (1): C:\processing-3.5.3-windows64\processing-3.5.3\modes\java\application\launch4j\bin\windres.exe --preprocessor=type -J rc -O coff -F pe-i386 C:\Users\8BIT_C~1\AppData\Local\Temp\launch4j5369524893352527775rc C:\Users\8BIT_C~1\AppData\Local\Temp\launch4j4291369801357606489o
	at net.sf.launch4j.Util.exec(Util.java:156)
	at net.sf.launch4j.Cmd.exec(Builder.java:215)
	at net.sf.launch4j.Builder.build(Builder.java:100)
	... 57 more

Total time: 0 seconds

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**Author:** ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-export-fails-no-matter-what/13364/2 "2019-08-14T01:19:17Z")

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i noticed a mix of win 64 and win 32

-a- if you have a win 64 PC you install a processing 3.5.3 64bit.  
-b- you use a sketch from examples and run it  
-c- you save it as your own project with SAVE AS ?sketchX?  
-d- you start the Export Application  
and enable Windows  
and enable embed JAVA for windows (64 bit )  
-e- you get a explorer window where you go down windows 64 path only and start:  
c:/\< users \>/…/Processing/sketchX/application.windows64\sketchX.exe

if you start  
c:/\< users \>/…/Processing/sketchX/application.windows32\sketchX.exe  
you might get a error depending on your PC installation…

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**Author:** ![8bit\_coder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/c77e96/32.png) [@8bit\_coder](https://discourse.processing.org/u/8bit_coder)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-export-fails-no-matter-what/13364/3 "2019-08-14T01:21:25Z")

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The weird thing is that my processing IS 64 bit. Also I tried exporting example sketches and those gave the same error. I also tried reinstalling JRE but that didn’t help either.

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**Author:** ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-export-fails-no-matter-what/13364/4 "2019-08-14T01:33:35Z")

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my above mentioned procedure work here ( Win 10 / 64Bit )  
fine, without any JAVA installed on the PC.  
( Processing comes with JAVA ( and also can export exactly THIS JAVA only  
( that’s why the 32bit export not work )))

please confirm that you use the  
[enable] embed JAVA for windows (64 bit )

> [@8bit\_coder](#):
>
> I also tried reinstalling JRE but that didn’t help either.

yes, you not need that at all.

did you check if

```auto
C:\processing-3.5.3-windows64\processing-3.5.3\modes\java\application\launch4j\bin\windres.exe

```

exists ( or was it deleted by windows defender as reported by others?? )

> reinstall Processing

or reset Windows.