Re: Installed JDK on Windows XP, no javac?



jg.campbell.ng@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> jg.campbell.ng@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hardly a Java question, but I'll try my luck.
> >
> > I've just installed JDK (JDK-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe) on a Windows
> > XP machine; or thought that I did. 'java'(.exe) is there in the
> > relevant \bin directory. But no 'javac'? Am I going mad?
[...]
> But I'm now reinstalling -- last time, and the previous (on another
> machine), I assumed that everything (from memory: SDK, Demos, Examples,
> JRE) would have been installed. Now I'm presented with a pretty vague
> menu. More later.
>

Apologies for the delay in following up -- Windows suggested that it
clear some space on the C: partition; I agreed, not realising that the
task would take more than one hour. I was installing JDK onto another
partition, but maybe the shortage of space on C: is a clue to the odd
behaviour descibed.

In any case, the reinstallation (from the /same/ .exe file) worked and
everything is as expected; 'javac.exe' is now in 'jdk...\bin'.

So, there are things in 'jdk...\bin' that were absent earlier, e.g.
'javac.exe'. And 'tools.jar' is in 'jdk...\lib' -- also absent earlier.

And there are files missing from 'jdk...\' that were present earlier --
I've forgotten the details, but a bunch of files with names suggestive
of foreign languages.

The 'pretty vague menu' (asking what needs to be installed -- jdk, jre,
etc.) mentioned above is now clear enough; initially, the method and
indication of selection was incomprehensible to me.

The other difference with the second installation is that it asked
about registering with both installed browsers (IE and Firefox), wheras
the original asked only about IE.

So, the original installation must somehow have got confused -- perhaps
by the lack of space on C:.

Thanks everyone. But probably not the last you have heard from me :-)

Jon C.

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