Why can't I compile my java file on cygwin, when it needs classes from a jar?
Question
I'm trying to compile my class along with a provided .jar file which contains classes that my class will use.
This is what I've been trying:
javac -classpath .:WordSearch.jar WordSearchSolver.java
And this is the response:
WordSearchSolver.java:16: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PuzzleWord
location: class WordSearchSolver
public ArrayList<PuzzleWord> findwords()
^
WordSearchSolver.java:18: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PuzzleWord
location: class WordSearchSolver
return new ArrayList<PuzzleWord>();
^
2 errors
This is my class:
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class WordSearchSolver
{
public WordSearchSolver(int size, char[][] puzzleboard, ArrayList<String> words)
{
}
public ArrayList<PuzzleWord> findwords()
{
return new ArrayList<PuzzleWord>();
}
}
WordSearch.jar contains:
PuzzleUI.class
PuzzleWord$Directions.class
PuzzleWord.class
Natural.class
(WordSearchSolver.java and Wordsearch.jar are in the same directory)
Am I missing something?
Solution 3
It ended up being a combination of semicolons and quotation marks.
javac -classpath ".;WordSearch.jar" WordSearchSolver.java
Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction!
OTHER TIPS
Although you're on Cygwin, I'm guessing that your path separator should be a semicolon, since the Java compiler/JVM will be running in a Windows environment.
javac -cp .\;WordSearch.jar ...
Note that the semicolon must be escaped to prevent interpretation by the Cygwin shell (thanks to bkail below)
You aren't importing any of the classes from your WordSearch.jar
in your WordSearchSolver
class. You need import statements at the top of this class including their package.