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Rajeshwar
Rajeshwar

Reputation: 11651

javac : Compiling a .java file which uses other classes in it

HI i have 3 java files

a.java  
b.java  
c.java

I managed to generate .class files for both a and b using

javac example/a.java  
javac example/b.java

but when i do the same for c.java I get the error error: cannot find symbol b and c

Any suggestions on how i could solve this problem ?

All the java files are in the same folder

Upvotes: 16

Views: 33429

Answers (2)

Tim Pote
Tim Pote

Reputation: 28019

You have to have classes a and b in your classpath when you try to compile class c. This allows the compiler to verify that they exist, figure out what methods they have, etc.

javac is pretty sensitive to package names and classpaths. The easiest thing to do is to compile all three at the same time like so javac example/a.java example/b.java example/c.java.

If you go to the parent directory of example (let's call it src), then you can run the following:

javac -cp src src/example/c.java

The reason you have to do it this way is because your classes have their packages listed as example. Because of your package name, javac is looking for the example directory in its classpath, where it expects to find a.class and b.class.

Upvotes: 24

Amir Afghani
Amir Afghani

Reputation: 38511

Presumably you're not in the example/ directory when you run javac. Try

javac -cp example c.java

Or just cd into that directory. The classpath is not automatically resolved for the classes c.java depends on.

Upvotes: 2

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