More than 16 000 unresolved references to program class member

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I have recently moved from Java 8 to jdk 23 and have used progaurd all the way. But with jdk 23 I get “can’t find referenced method/field” on almost every class. And most of the classes just reference common libraries like java and javax.

I use ant with Neatbeans with following setup:

-injars dist/my.jar
-outjars out.jar
-libraryjars ${java.home}/jmods/java.base.jmod(!**.jar;!module-info.class)
-libraryjars dist/mylibraries
-printmapping myapplication.map
-dontshrink
-dontoptimize

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Hi @hmf

In Java 9, the JDK standard library was modularised using the Java modules (jmod) files. So there isn’t a single Java runtime jar like in Java 8 (rt.jar).

You already have the java.base.jmod as a library jar, but if you check the ${java.home}/jmods/ folder you will see there are many jmods.

You are probably using classes from other jmods so you would need to add those as libraryjars as well.

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Of course, thank you. After adding eleven other modules it now works fine.