How to wildcard include JAR files when compiling?

Question

I have the following in a java file (MyRtmpClient.java):

import org.apache.mina.common.ByteBuffer;

and ByteBuffer is inside a

Answer 1

In Java 8, the option ".;*" etc. which are mentioned above did not seem to work. I tried and found that : javac -cp '<location of jars>/*' MyRtmpClient.java

works:

<location of jar> can be /usr/local/classes/* or /home/developer/MyProject/*

Answer 2

Probably below syntax will work on windows dos command

javac -cp ".;first.jar;second.jar;third.jar" MyRtmpClient.java

Answer 3

javac does not understand *.jar in the classpath argument. You need to explicitly specify each jar. e.g.

javac -cp ".;mina.jar" MyRtmpClient.java