The "java" command expects a fully-qualified class name, not a file path as its argument.
E.g. cd /Users/me/Documents/java java --module-path $PATH_TO_FX --add-modules=javafx.controls HelloFX On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:06 PM Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu> wrote: > This is under macOS Mojave (10.14). > > Following instructions at https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#install-javafx, > I compiled the sample HelloFX.java via: > > javac --module-path $PATH_TO_FX --add-modules=javafx.controls > /Users/me/Documents/java/HelloFX.java > > But now if I attempt to run that... > > java --module-path $PATH_TO_FX --add-modules=javafx.controls > /Users/me/Documents/java/HelloFX > > ... I get error: > > Error: Could not find or load main class > .Users.me.Documents.java.HelloFX > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > /Users/me/Documents/java/HelloFX > > Yet the file reported as not found is there: > > ls -l /Users/me/Documents/java/HelloFX.class > -rwxr--r-- 1 me staff 1336 Oct 30 16:01 > /Users/murray/Documents/java/HelloFX.class > > (I had already changed permissions to add `u+x` in case that was the > issue, but apparently that was not the trouble. > > What's wrong? > > (Yes, `$PATH_TO_FX` does point to `javafx-sdk-11/lib`.) > > —— > Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > University of Massachusetts Amherst > > > > > -- Steve Hannah Web Lite Solutions Corp.
