'error: cannot find symbol' please help

**Bahirji Naik** · 12-21-2011, 05:29 AM

This may be stupid or old error but I search all threads and did all related task but still I have this problem 'error: cannot find symbol'

Main class :

package vilsoft.tree;

import java.applet.*;
import vilsoft.tree.*;
import java.awt.Container;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Main extends JApplet{

public void init()
{
Container content_pane = getContentPane ();

// Create an instance of DrawingPanel
int x=1000, y=1000;
content_pane.setSize(x, y);

Google amol=new Google();
content_pane.add(amol);

}

public void paint(){

}
}

Google class :

package vilsoft.tree;

import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class Google extends JPanel{

}

I put both .java files in same folder i.e. in /vilsoft/tree. When I compile and run through Eclipse, there is no error but when I am running through 'javac' it showing :

Main.java:19: error: cannot find symbol
Google amol=new Google();
^
symbol: class Google
location: class Main
Main.java:19: error: cannot find symbol
Google amol=new Google();
^
symbol: class Google
location: class Main
2 errors

Please help me..

**quad64bit** · 12-21-2011, 07:42 AM

I have a feeling you're trying to compile from the wrong place. If your package is located at:
/someFolder/vilsoft/tree/Main.java
Then you need to cd to the someFolder dir to do the compile, not the tree folder:

cd /someFolder
javac vilsoft/tree/Main.java

Javac always needs to run from the root of the package and it needs the complete path to the file to compile relative to the current directory. That should work!