making jar files available to javac?

[Frank Vandenberg]

Sorry, this is probably just a dumb newbie question. I'm having a problem setting up a library jar file in a windows environment. I know that this is just an issue of setting up the PATH or CLASSPATH or something else correctly but I can't seem to get it right. Any hints, suggestions, nudges or outright handholding cheerfully welcomed.
Thanks,
Frank Vandenberg

[Barry Andrews]

You can do one of 3 things:
1. Put the jar file in your system classpath, then it is available to everything all of time.
2. Type set classpath=%classpath%;C:\path\yourJar.jar from command line before running javac
3. Run javac like this:
javac -classpath C:\path\yourJar.jar yourJavaSource.java
Any of these will work. If you still have problems, give us some specifics. Hope this helps!
Barry

[Frank Vandenberg]

Thanks for the response, I'll try these suggestions.
Frank Vandenberg