javac on cygwin

[Randall R Schulz]

Kevin,

Javac is not particularly special. It is a Windows-native program, and as 
such requires absolute file and directory names be provided in Windows 
format (forward slashes are OK, but drive letters are required and the 
Cygwin notion of root is completely unknown to such programs). PATH-like 
variables (specifically CLASSPATH) must be in Windows format (semicolon 
separators).

Both of these conversions is handled by the "cygpath" utility. Learn about it.

I strongly suggest that if your development environment, either 
individually or as a group, is or is at all likely to become cross-platform 
(betwen Windows and any kind of Unix), that you adopt a Unix-centered set 
of build scripts and then create cover scripts that encapsulate the 
operations that bridge the gap between the POSIX / Unix world of Cygwin and 
the underlying native Sun Java SDK tools. Do so in a way that allows those 
translations to be easily switched off, replaced or made null when not 
needed (when you're working on an actual Unix system).

I do lots of Java under Windows with Cygwin and have for quite a while. 
Feel free to come back with further questions.

Randall Schulz


At 03:52 2003-01-04, Kevin Cheng wrote:
>Ok, I've searched for articles on getting a java
>compiler working on cygwin. I got very vague info.
>
>Can someone please give me the newbie quick setup on
>setting up a java compiler to work on cygwin.
>
>I've got the java JDK 1.4.1 from java.sun.com. Now
>what do I do?


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