[SOLVED] Compiling Package Class

[nwboy74]

Why can I not compile a single class that uses another class of the same package? I thought that all classes of a package were automatically imported.

I have a package foo. The directory is named foo. I have two classes: Foobar and Footwo. Footwo uses Foobar. If I'm in the directory foo and do javac Footwo.java, I get errors that it cannot find symbol Foobar. It works if I do javac *.java.

[Norm]

You need to set the classpath for the compiler so it can find the class. The classpath + the package path is the location of the class file. You have the classpath pointing to the location of the class file instead of to the begining of the package path which would be up one level to where the foo directory is.

[Eranga]

How did you refer those three package in FooTwo class? Can you show that? Did you try what Norm says?

[nwboy74]

I have to compile from a directory above where the packages are. Then the compiler knows where everything is. Thanks, Norm.