On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:55 -0500, Ernest Mueller wrote: > We are trying to launch some Java apps from within Cygwin. The problem > we're having is that then Java file IO operations want to use Windows paths > and use \ as the default path separator. (This is different from classpath > problems or using cygpath to convert stuff you're passing in on the command > line). We need to override the File.separator (path separator) so that > Java will be able to perform many file IO operations (like making a > directory). Anyone have any experience with that?
Cygwin Ports provides a GNU Classpath-based Java environment which is mostly compatible with JDK 1.5, along with ant, jdk6-langtools (Sun's javac and friends), and a number of Java libraries. These all take *NIX-style paths like all other Cygwin binaries. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple