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Re: help on makefile
- From: Nicolas Roche <roche at act-europe dot fr>
- To: Yung Leem <leemy78 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:50:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: help on makefile
- References: <20040827084755.36035.qmail@web11506.mail.yahoo.com>
Yung Leem wrote:
Hello to all cygwin experts,
I am a newbie cygwin user that's having a problem compiling a java source.
I am running a makefile that's calling "javac -cp [some_dir] /cygdrive/c/blah/myclass.java"
that's complaining about not being able to find that file. Being familiar with unix development,
I assumed that the shell process would spawn the javac process, but I think my guess is wrong.
What really seems to happen is that javac gets called from Windows XP (the system I am using)
and javac (from windows xp process) tries to compile that /cygdrive/c/blah/myclass.java file, and
obviously fails to find that file. What are the options I have?
your javac program is not a cygwin program so it won't understand the cygwin
like path. One solution is to use cygpath -w to translate cygwin-like path to
windows-like path.
I am really freaking out that something like LD_LIBRARY_PATH, CLASSPATH, or PATH variables use ":"
colon as a delimeter, but windows file systems recognize ":" as a drive name not as a delimeter.
So having something like "export CLASSPATH=c:/windows:c:/temp:c:/blah:$CLASSPATH" will be a
nightmare. I need some advise. Thanks in advance for answering my question.
Cygwin handle very well the path separators. If you do in cygwin bash
$ export CLASSPATH=c:/windows:c:/temp:c:/blah:$CLASSPATH
you can launch a windows shell from cygwin and see that the var have been
translated correctly (: -> ;)
Nicolas
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