javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread Kevin Cheng
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?

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread David P. Caldwell
Kevin: >Ok, I've searched for articles on getting a java >compiler working on cygwin. I got very vague info. >I've got the java JDK 1.4.1 from java.sun.com. Now >what do I do? Not sure what your background is, so I'm not sure how to answer. Right now, you could be someone who doesn't know Java,

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread 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

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, David P. Caldwell wrote: > Kevin: > > >Ok, I've searched for articles on getting a java > >compiler working on cygwin. I got very vague info. > > >I've got the java JDK 1.4.1 from java.sun.com. Now > >what do I do? > > Not sure what your background is, so I'm not sure how to an

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread Shankar Unni
Randall R Schulz wrote: 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 pr

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Shankar, At 14:17 2003-01-04, Shankar Unni wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: 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 Cy

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:20:36PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 14:17 2003-01-04, Shankar Unni wrote: >>Randall R Schulz wrote: >> >>>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

RE: javac on cygwin

2003-01-05 Thread David P. Caldwell
2003 4:55 PM To: David P. Caldwell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: javac on cygwin On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, David P. Caldwell wrote: > Kevin: > > >Ok, I've searched for articles on getting a java > >compiler working on cygwin. I got very vague info. &g

RE: javac on cygwin

2003-01-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
> itself. > > Thanks for the contribution, though ... getting those scripts out there will > only help other people and/or make them better. > > -- David. > -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 04, 200

RE: javac on cygwin

2003-01-06 Thread David P. Caldwell
Igor: >Actually, the custom java.io.File wrapper is very useful in that it's >orthogonal to the purpose of my scripts and takes care of one of the >caveats (namely, the filenames passed to Java programs). Actually, the way it works now, the programs I write have to be Cygwin-aware (I don't have a

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-11 Thread Randall R Schulz
Kevin, Someone asked on about makefiles for Java. Another person replied with a pointer to this site: , which appears to have a good makefile for Java. It should be usable as-is or easily be modified to work under Cygwin. I h

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would understand cygwin paths. You could theoretically modify an .exe to load cygwin1.dll and use the wrapper functions. Or you could use some of W

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:26:28AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the >>win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would understand >>cygwin paths. You could theoretically modify an .exe to load >>c

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Hmm. Would that even work? Yes. Hmm again. It'll be interesting to see this in action.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/doc

RE: javac on cygwin

2003-01-15 Thread Chris January
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:26:28AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the > >>win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would understand > >>cygwin paths. You could theoretically modify an .exe t

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:07:42AM -, Chris January wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:26:28AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >> >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the >> >>win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would und