Compiling probem "cannot find symbol"

[thegluups]

Exactly the same thing :s

Could it be that I haven't isntalled all the required packages for Java on my computer?

thegluups@thegluups-laptop:~$ cd /
thegluups@thegluups-laptop:/$ javac -cp . media/Hybrid/Documents/Cambridge/ComputerScience/CST1/Java/Tick1/*.java
media/Hybrid/Documents/Cambridge/ComputerScience/CST1/Java/Tick1/TestBit.java:8: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable PackedLong
location: class media.Hybrid.Documents.Cambridge.ComputerScience.CST1.Java.TestBit
    boolean value = PackedLong.get(currentValue, position);
                    ^
1 error

[JosAH]

Exactly the same thing :s

Could it be that I haven't isntalled all the required packages for Java on my computer?

thegluups@thegluups-laptop:~$ cd /
thegluups@thegluups-laptop:/$ javac -cp . media/Hybrid/Documents/Cambridge/ComputerScience/CST1/Java/Tick1/*.java
media/Hybrid/Documents/Cambridge/ComputerScience/CST1/Java/Tick1/TestBit.java:8: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable PackedLong
location: class media.Hybrid.Documents.Cambridge.ComputerScience.CST1.Java.TestBit
    boolean value = PackedLong.get(currentValue, position);
                    ^
1 error

Is that PackedLong.java file also in the same directory where those other two .java files are stored? (just to make sure, also check the spelling of those three files)

kind regards,

Jos

[thegluups]

Yes, it is in the same folder and I have doubled check that all names are correct. Oddly enough, I now have a class file for SetBit (despite the fact that I never remember compiling it sucessfully), although when I try to run it i get an error message telling me there is no main class.

I have also reinstalled all the required java packages.

I am surprised that someone said it worked under Eclipse... I am now using NetBeans... but am having no such luck

[JosAH]

Yes, it is in the same folder and I have doubled check that all names are correct. Oddly enough, I now have a class file for SetBit (despite the fact that I never remember compiling it sucessfully), although when I try to run it i get an error message telling me there is no main class.

I have also reinstalled all the required java packages.

I am surprised that someone said it worked under Eclipse... I am now using NetBeans... but am having no such luck

The fact that you have a SetBit.class file implies that it (SetBit.java) compiled successfully, i.e. the compiler was able to find that PackedLong class because the SetBit class needs it. Something is telling me that there is a typo acting up somewhere.

kind regards,

Jos

[thegluups]

I've emailed my program to someone else, and it compiles fine on his computer. THat same person (who has a working program) emailed me his program, and I still get the same error.

I must have forgotten to install something :s or place myself in the wrong directory when I try to compile?

[bdtagar]

Hey,
Double-check your path variable;.
Thanks
bye.

[thegluups]

I copied it on to another comptuer that already had java on it,and it worked fine. I must have installed java badly.

Thanks for all your help.

[JosAH]

I copied it on to another comptuer that already had java on it,and it worked fine. I must have installed java badly.

That's a very peculiar 'bad installation', i.e. executables don't crash in the most horrible way but you get a neat (but incorrect) error diagnostic. My feeling is that you must've done something wrong or your filing system is corrupt.

kind regards,

Jos