Re: JGNAT help puh-leeze

[G <gmw@interact.net.au>]

Geoff Bull wrote:

> maybe you should take this to the gnat chat list
>

sorry

>
> G wrote:
> >
>
> > after installing the JGNAT over my GNAT,
>                              ^^^^
> Why did you do that? - I installed it somewhere else.
>

I botched it.

>
> > I have problems running some
> > examples because of an aborted installation of Borland's JBUILDER which
> > has inserted itself
> > into some of the path operations.
>
> I don't understand what you are saying here?
>
> > It is not evident in my autoexec.bat
> > file... so I can't trial the examples.
>
> Oh so you're using win95/98, always helpful to say so.
> Do you mean the JBUILDER install has screwed up your autoexec
> and you don't know how to fix it?
>

I can fix autoexec - but when I enter "make run" at the prompt in DOS
everything starts fine but then I get an error message with
can't find C:\JBUILDER\JDK1.2.2  ... (etc.) But the JBUILDER directory
doesn't exist

>
> >  Any advice ?
> Without more information on the problem, nobody can help you.
> You could restore your autoexec form a backup.
>
> > Also - The JGNAT outputs class files.  Ok, but why is it that after
> > compiling the hello.adb file to hello.class that I can't run the class
> > file with "java hello" at the command line prompt ?
>
> I tried this out on nt and had no problems.
> If you don't say what happened when you tried "java hello"
> nobody can do any more than guess at your problem
> Here is my guess:
> You didn't read the documentation (in particular jgnat-1.0p-README.txt)
> you got java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError, right?

No.

>
> Search the doco for CLASSPATH and you will find the solution.
>
> If my guess is wrong, maybe you fouled up the installation?
>

You got that right.  I scrapped it and gnat and am re-downloading gnat
altogether

>
> Cheers
> Geoff

thanks

G


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