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/share/b/pub/jikes.help

								 Mar  2, 2006
								

CONTENTS:
	How to set your account up to use Jikes
	How to compile Java classes with Jikes
	How to find documentation on Jikes


How to set your account up to use Jikes
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  Jikes is the IBM Java compiler.  It is available on Solaris UNIX (SPARC
  and X86) systems in EECS, in /usr/sww/pkg/jikes-1.22/.

  To add the programs and manual pages to your path, 
  for csh or tsch:

	% set path = ( /usr/sww/pkg/jikes-1.22/bin $path )
	% setenv MANPATH "/usr/sww/pkg/jikes-1.22/man:${MANPATH}"
	% rehash

 or, for sh and ksh:

	$ PATH="/usr/sww/pkg/jikes-1.22/bin:$PATH"
	$ MANPATH="/usr/sww/pkg/jikes-1.22/man:${MANPATH}"
	$ export PATH MANPATH


How to compile Java classes with Jikes
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  You can invoke the compiler directly as "jikes", but it does not know about
  the java.* classes by itself; "jdkjikes" is a wrapper which tells it where
  to find these classes.

  So, to compile a program with Jikes, you should use the program "jdkjikes":

	% jdkjikes Evil.java

  To generate debugging information please use the -g flag (i.e. jdkjikes -g
  Evil.java). You can then run the program with the usual Java virtual machine:

	% java Evil


How to find documentation on Jikes
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  Set your manual path to include the directory "/usr/sww/pkg/jikes-1.22/man".
 
  For more information, visit the IBM developerWorks Jikes web page at
  http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jalapeno/


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