Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Importance: Normal Subject: Re: How to run javac To: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 (Intl) 21 March 2000 Message-ID: From: "Fred Kulack" Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:09:43 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on d27ml103/27/M/IBM(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 11/21/2000 12:09:43 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Larry, nailed problem #1, javac is itself a java program, and java doesn't > grok cygwin paths (unfortunately) so you need to either pass it a dos path > it will understand, or a basic unix path it will understand. I'll discourage > you from attempting the second, as it would go against the generally accepted > rule of not putting cygwin' root directory in your dos root ( i.e. / == c:\ ). > This leaves the best option as passing java a path it will understand. Try > this: > > javac -d . `cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/abc/abc.java` > Actually, I tend to recommend and always do install cygwin in the root directory. It gives the most natural unix like environment. There's nothing special about the root directory, you just have to be sure you don't delete the couple of files that cygwin puts there. Wondering how many others do this? Also, after this: javac /this/is/*.java works fine. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com