INSTALLING OPENJDK 8 WITH THE ZIP BUNDLE
1 min readApr 3, 2020
To manually install OpenJDK 8 for Windows using the ZIP bundle: Download the OpenJDK 8 for Windows for your architecture for x64 architecture https://adoptopenjdk.net/upstream.html
Extract the contents of the ZIP bundle to a directory of your choice.
Add the bin directory contained in your OpenJDK 8 for Windows installation path to the %PATH% environment variable: C:\> setx /m PATH “%PATH%;C:\folder\java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.XXXX–1\bin” , and add as well your JAVA_HOME variable to the folder of your java installation folder