[BMEdwards37]

Hey guys, just finished a big project in school programming lego nxt robots and for the whole project i used notepad++ instead of netbeans as it really made me know my stuff. I liked compiling with the command line and am trying to do the same with java, i read online to add C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_01\bin to the beginning of my system environment variable "path", i tried both path for the system and for the user, but the directions i was looking at were vista. I can't find anything post-vista on how to make this work, in the command line java -version correctly displays my version, but javac -version gives me nothing. Can anyone educate me on how to set this up?

Thanks.

[pbl]

Is
> java -version gives 1.7.0_01 ?

[BMEdwards37]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\BMEdwards37>java -version
java version "1.7.0_01"
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_01-b08)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.1-b02, mixed mode)

this is what i get when i try a javac

C:\Users\BMEdwards37\Documents\NXTbots>javac SoundMaker.java
'javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\BMEdwards37\Documents\NXTbots>

[pbl]

Stupid question: do you have a javac.exe in
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_01\bin

[BMEdwards37]

Yessir.

Must be a problem with my path. "C:\Program Files\java\jdk1.7.0_01\bin\javac" [file] worked.

[pbl]

OK javac or path problem ?

> cd \Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_01\bin
> javac -version

[BMEdwards37]

forgot the semicolon separating the default from java when adding to path, i figured it out. or rather you guided me enough that i could figure it out. Thank you sir.

[pbl]

Sorry, haven't correctly your previous post

Post the output of

> echo %path%

must be something stupid

*Edited: OK fixed. Glad I could help

This post has been edited by pbl: 09 May 2012 - 10:22 PM