Re: cant's compile with javac

In article <1133127445.931575.32890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ido.Yehieli@xxxxxxxxx took the hamburger, threw it on the grill, and I
said "Oh wow"...

> Hi, whenever I try to compile something with javac from the command
> prompt (windows XP) i get the following error:
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> com/sun/tools/javac/Main
>
> even if I just write "javac" without a file to compile i get the same
> error.
> The only time when i works correctly is when I'm in the bin directory
> that contains javac, the i can compile everything. If i change to a
> different directory it doesn't work and i get the afordmentioned error.
> one more thing - when i compile from eclipse it works, i only get it
> when manually compiling for the command prompt.
> I'm using version 1.5 update 5 (the last one) but it happened with
> earlier versions as well (1.5 update 1, update 2, etc..)
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>

cd go/to/the/directory/where/your/javafile/is
then javac Yourfile.java



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