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GUAVAC(1) USER COMMANDS GUAVAC(1)
NAME
guavac - a free Java compiler
guavad - guavac's disassembler
SYNOPSIS
guavac [ -version ] [ -classpath directory ] [ -d output-
directory ] [ -M ] filenames
guavad filename
DESCRIPTION
Guavac is a compiler for the Java (TM) programming lan-
guage distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
You should feel free to use, copy and modify it, based on
the terms in the COPYING file included in this distribu-
tion. We are distributing guavac free of charge in the
hopes that other people will find it useful and possibly
enhance its utility in turn.
All materials needed to compile a HotJava(TM) or
Netscape(TM) compliant applet are included in the guavac
distribution. No proprietary code from Sun is needed, so
other tool writers should feel free to include guavac in
their systems.
Guavac is written in C++ to compile on any Unix system.
This has been tested under Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x, Iris
5.3, HP/UX 9, and Linux 1.x using GNU's gcc-2.7.2,
libg++-2.7.1 and binutils-2.6, but other operating systems
should work without any major changes.
Guavac is not meant to be the definite GNU Java compiler.
There's a different project in the works at Cygnus, that
aims at building a GNU CC front-end for Java.
OPTIONS
Guavac recognizes the following options.
-classpath directory
Set the directory. It maybe contains either the
stub classes as distributed with guavac in the
classes.zip file. Or, even better, the directory
where the classes of Sun's Java Development Kit, or
JDK for short, reside.
-d directory
Set the output directory which otherwise defaults
to the current working directory.
-M Prints out dependencies for compiled files instead
of compiling.
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GUAVAC(1) USER COMMANDS GUAVAC(1)
-version
Prints out the current version of guavac.
Refer to the BUGS section below on philosophical implica-
tions of any collection of OPTIONS.
ENVIRONMENT
Guavac recognizes the CLASSPATH environment variable, con-
taining a colon separated list of directories where to
look for compiled Java classes; much like the standard
PATH variable used to find executables. The setting of
CLASSPATH may be overriden with the -classpath option.
BUGS
At present, after 11 official releases, guavac 0.2.5 is
relatively stable. However, incompatibilities arise
between guavac and Sun's offerings, most of which are
fixed shortly after discovery.
SEE ALSO
javac(1), jdb(1), kaffe(1)
AVAILABILITY
The guavac project's homepage is accessible via the
World-Wide Web at:
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~engberg/guavac/
AUTHOR Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 by David Engberg (gep-
petto@eecs.com). Manual page written and last
upated in August 1996 by Joerg Heitkoetter
(joke@Germany.EU.net).
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