Compilation Using Argfiles

[Timmy Chen]

I am experinmenting with the compilation through javac in the command lines window in Windows XP. Everything works fine untile I start using argfiles.

Here is my command line:

javac -classpath .;.\classes;"C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar" .\src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java

This works perfectly until I try to use argfiles:

javac @options @classes

where options file contains:

-classpath .;.\classes;"C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar"
-d .\classes

and classes file contains:

.\src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java

Somehow, when I use the argfiles command line, javac is telling me that I am having invalid flag. I think it is probably due to the white space that I have. If that is the case, how do I have javac regorgnize the white space in argfiles?