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On 4/2/2012 1:48 AM, Me Myself and I wrote:
> I have just gone through the install with internet download using
> the latest cygwin windows installer,
> on my 64 bit Microsoft Windows 7.  I assume that I've only gotten
> 32 bit software, which is not my issue.
> 
> I am trying to compile my first java program,
> 
> gcj Program.java --main=Program -o Program.exe
> 
> and I find that I only get the errror message:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain

Check /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gcc4.README, specifically the section "Java
users need an additional download to compile source to bytecode."

I was not able to find the "download_ecj.sh" script mentioned there, but
downloading the ECJ jar file solved the problem for me.

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