What to put in the path varible.

[Peter Munch]

I'm reading the great book Head First Java at the moment to learn Java. But I got one problem, I have tried to add the location of the bin folder to the Path variable but Cygwin still won't let me find Javac. I have done this on another computer, it worked on that one. But on this one it won't work of some strange reason.

[Adam Nace]

We're going to need some more context than that, if we're to know what's gone wrong. Here's what I suggest. Executed the following command:

echo $PATH

in cygwin, and paste the results, here, and we might be able to tell you what's wrong.


In general, in cygwin, you want to put something like this into your bashrc:

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/jdk/bin

Note, that is a colon ( not a semicolon ( . If you're used to working in DOS (or the Windows Command Prompt), this might surprise you.

Also, note that you might have to use the cygdirve path, from cygwin:

PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/program\ files/java/YourJDKVersionHere/bin

If you choose not to use your bashrc (or rc file for whatever shell you're using), you could do this:

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/jdk/bin

Anyway, try echoing out your path, and find out what it looks like, and if it looks the way you expect it to.

- Adam

[Peter Munch]

Never Mind, figured out my problem.