[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Standalone SWT and classpath

["Nick Maynard" <ncm99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies - posted to eclipse.platform.swt now.

"Nick Maynard" <ncm99@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:bb7r4j$tj2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sorry to bother you guys with something so simple, but I'm completely
stuck
> (and can't find the answer anywhere).
>
> I've made a perfectly functioning standalone SWT app in Eclipse, and this
> works fine from inside the IDE.
> So I've exported a JAR file from the project, and attempted to run it with
> the following command:
>
> C:\>java -jar -cp
>
g:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.swt.win32_2.1.0\ws\win32\swt.jar -Djava.libra
> ry.path=g:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.swt.win32_2.1.0\os\win32\x86
> MindMap.jar
>
> Note that the swt.jar is in the classpath, but when running I get this:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Composite
>         at com.fluffybrain.mindmap.Main.<init>(Main.java:19)
>         at com.fluffybrain.mindmap.Main.main(Main.java:24)
>
> Now this confuses me - the jar file containing the definition for
> org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite is in the classpath.
> No matter how many different ways I try to get this to work (quotes around
> the classpath, the works), it refuses point blank, always with the same
> error message.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick Maynard
> ncm99@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>