[Biojava-l] problems installing biojava on Windows 2000

[Matthew Pocock]

Since 1.4 seems to come bundled with net-beans now,
should we update the docs to say how to get biojava
working in netbeans? Love it or hate it, everyone is
going to have it.

Matthew

 --- David Millis <dmillis at mindspring.com> wrote: >
Mark -
> 
> Thanks for your response to my message. 
> 
> I am using the netBeans 3.5 IDE for editing and
> compiling Java files. I
> have found that if I mount the
> biojava-1.30-jdk14.jar archive inside the
> IDE, the Java compiler is able to find all the files
> it needs, even if I
> don't edit the Windows PATH variable. I have finally
> been able to get
> one of the example from "BioJava In Anger" to
> compile without any
> errors. This is so much easier than trying to get
> the PATH variable set
> exactly right in Windows that I will just use this
> strategy.
> 
> David Millis.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schreiber, Mark
> [mailto:mark.schreiber at agresearch.co.nz] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:44 PM
> To: David Millis; biojava-l at biojava.org
> Subject: RE: [Biojava-l] problems installing biojava
> on Windows 2000
> 
> Hi -
> 
> Your class path looks OK but you can check that it
> has actually been set
> by running set command with no arguments from the
> command prompt. If the
> CLASSPATH variable is not displaying properly there
> then it is not
> properly set (possibly incorrect syntax).
> 
> If you are running BioJava 1.3 or less you will also
> need the
> Jakarta-Regexp jar on your path.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Millis [mailto:dmillis at mindspring.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 6:04 a.m.
> To: biojava-l at biojava.org
> Subject: [Biojava-l] problems installing biojava on
> Windows 2000
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to using biojava. I am trying to install
> biojava on a PC
> running Windows 2000 Professional. I am using Java 2
> SDK version 1.4.2.
> I have downloaded the files in the "binaries"
> directory in the download
> area of the biojava server to the directory
> "C:\biojava" on my computer.
> I have added the 
> string
> 
> 
>
"C:\biojava;C:\biojava\biojava.jar;C:\biojava\xerces.jar;C:\biojava\byte
> code.jar;" 
> 
> to my PATH variable. When I try to compile one of
> the simple demo files,
> like AlphabetExample.java, I get error messages
> saying that the packages
> "org.biojava.bio.symbol.*" and
> "org.biojava.bio.seq.*" can't be found.
> Is there something else I have to do to get the
> biojava files installed
> correctly?
> 
> Thanks -
> David Millis.
> 
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