Java and Cygwin

[Tim Eapen]

Hello everybody:

I just downloaded cygwin and have been fooling around with it to compile and run simple java programs. I get a lot of class java.lang.NoClassDefFound errors. Here is what I type at the command line:

java -classpath 'cygpath -wp /cygdrive/c/test' jarname.Hello

So I try and use cygpath to convert UNIX style path to Windows style path (i.e. the classpath should be C:\test). The above works when I open up a DOS prompt: java -classpath C:\test jarname.Hello

What am I doing wrong?

Tim

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally posted by Tim Eapen:
java -classpath 'cygpath -wp /cygdrive/c/test' jarname.Hello

Tim,
You are running this in the Cygwin window making it a UNIX command. (I realize this statement is obvious to you, I'm just adding it for anyone reading this.)

In a UNIX command, single quotes mean to leave the String as is. Backward quotes/backticks (`cmd`) execute a command.

[Tim Eapen]

That's awesome Jeanne.

Thanks!