compiling commandline

hi,
I've been playing about with a couple of things, and im not getting as far as I hoped.
I'm certainly no stranger to software development, but not Java. So, here is my question.
using netbeans, eclipse etc compiling is as easy as pushing a button, litrally.
but how does one get the commandline compiler to compile against the classpath.
I'm a sole linux user and i tried like this
javac -cp ../bukkitapi.jar *.java

but it throws errors complaining about definitions not being in place but if its linking to the classpath shouldnt that reference it as well, what am I missing out of this that an IDE is doing for me, an extra option or something?

PS: The code im trying to compile should compile its syntax correct and does very little. the other project im trying to compile has previously been sucessfully compiled by someone else, i got the sources and I cant get it to compile, so im doing something wrong.

thanks.


~mors

 

I am not sure if the asterisk can be used as wildcard but seems to be right. Maybe there is a library missing in the classpath?

Try this: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/unix.html

And also check Apache ANT: http://ant.apache.org/

It will help you alot building sources under commandline

 

Thanks, looks like the compile options im using is ok. ill update all the api references, looks like it sees some of the api but not all, i should probably check for case sensivity in the code or something. something isnt right.