Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020211155509.02474ad0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:09:39 -0800 To: wally liau , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: HELP: java path and classpath question In-Reply-To: <20020211223949.70868.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020211105436.024f3b00@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Wally, Unless a program has been ported to and compiled with Cygwin headers and libraries it is a Windows program and knows nothing of POSIX (Unix-style) file names and PATH (-type) variables. Cygwin programs will understand both kinds of arguments. To be more precise, the Cygwin libraries take either kind of file name, but a program that was only minimally ported to Cygwin might make its own assumptions about what a file name looks like, and could misinterpret a Windows-style name. The Java tools from Sun have _not_ been ported to Cygwin, and hence you must supply arguments in the Windows format. Good luck. Randy At 14:39 2002-02-11, you wrote: >He Randall, thanks a lot for the message. > >The java compiler I am using is called generic java (with extended utility >classes, see http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/pizza/gj/and >http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/adding_generics/). > > >those environment variables and alias are set in .bashrc. "gjc" is >supposed to compile java source files containing templates into stardard >class files. > >I am confused with cygwin- and window-style paths. A simple question is >which style to use in order to invoke window java vm, and if window-style >path is the one to be used, how to put it in a file like .bashrc. > >Thanks again. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/