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Subject: Re: Question on Java and Cygwin
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From: Ernest Mueller <Ernest.Mueller@ni.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:34:14 -0500
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cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote on 07/30/2010 04:43:46 PM:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:55 -0500, Ernest Mueller wrote:
> > We are trying to launch some Java apps from within Cygwin.  The problem
> > we're having is that then Java file IO operations want to use Windows
paths
> > and use \ as the default path separator.  (This is different from
classpath
> > problems or using cygpath to convert stuff you're passing in on the
command
> > line).  We need to override the File.separator (path separator) so that
> > Java will be able to perform many file IO operations (like making a
> > directory).  Anyone have any experience with that?
>
> Cygwin Ports provides a GNU Classpath-based Java environment which is
> mostly compatible with JDK 1.5, along with ant, jdk6-langtools (Sun's
> javac and friends), and a number of Java libraries.  These all take
> *NIX-style paths like all other Cygwin binaries.

Thanks!

Ernest


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