OS independent path in build path

[guesswho]

Hi,

I hope someone can help... I'm quite new to java and eclipse and there
is sth. i don't understand
i want to add some external jar's (jawk, jclips) to my project, I
placed them in my projects directory but when I add them to build path
(in eclipse -> Add External JAR) it is impossible to give the OS
independent path and i need to change that every time i want to run my
app on different OS.
....so how to make external jars work on both Win/Linux ??

thanks in advance,

 

[impaler]

(in eclipse -> Add External JAR) it is impossible to give the OS

independent path and i need to change that every time i want to run my
app on different OS.
...so how to make external jars work on both Win/Linux ??

A good practice is to use a lib folder under your project dir and copy
there all the dependencies. Don't use add external jars use Add Jar or
Add Class Folder instead.
Also have a look at ant and build your project including all the
dependencies and you won't have problems at all in different OSs

 

[Dale King]

A good practice is to use a lib folder under your project dir and copy
there all the dependencies. Don't use add external jars use Add Jar or
Add Class Folder instead.
Also have a look at ant and build your project including all the
dependencies and you won't have problems at all in different OSs

A better solution is to use Maven as your build environment. It will
download and keep your external dependencies in its own repository. There is
an Eclipse plug-in for it as well.

 

[John O]

Hi,

I hope someone can help... I'm quite new to java and eclipse and there
is sth. i don't understand
i want to add some external jar's (jawk, jclips) to my project, I
placed them in my projects directory but when I add them to build path
(in eclipse -> Add External JAR) it is impossible to give the OS
independent path and i need to change that every time i want to run my
app on different OS.
...so how to make external jars work on both Win/Linux ??

thanks in advance,

NetBeans 5.0 allows you to add libraries to your project. The build
process (which uses ANT) places all library dependencies into a lib
subdirectory next to the app's jar file. The jar file has pointers to
all library dependencies...it has class-path entries for the other jar
files. Works on all platforms.

You should be able to do something similar with Eclipse.