Thursday, January 21, 2010

Compile recursively with javac

To my shame I have never used javac directly for compiling source files, always it was something like "ant". And today it was the first time on my memory when I had to do that :) It was a simple application, just an example for presentation and I didn't want to add anything additional there.
Thing which looks like a trivial task appeared to be not so trivial, because javac doesn't recursively compile files in directories, you have to specify each directory separately or create file with list of files for compilation, something like that:

find ./src -name "*.java" > sources_list.txt
javac -classpath "${CLASSPATH}" @sources_list.txt


On Windows first line should be replaced with: dir .\src\*.java /s /B > sources_list.txt