I was testing a new Maven install on Windows98SE. There are 3 issues: 1. The instructions do not mention setting M2_HOME. 2. The Launcher class was not found. 3. Every result ends with "Invalid switch".
== DETAILS Unzipped maven-2.0-bin.zip to C:\apache\maven-2.0 FILE: C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT ADD: SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\apache\maven-2.0\bin SET M2_HOME=C:\apache\maven-2.0 The instructions do not mention setting M2_HOME at: http://maven.apache.org/download.html#installation COMMAND: mvn --version RESULT: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/classworlds/Launcher Invalid switch FILE: mvn.bat CHANGED: %MAVEN_JAVA_EXE% %MAVEN_OPTS% -classpath %CLASSWORLDS_JAR% "-Dclassworlds.conf=%M2_HOME%\bin\m2.conf" "-Dmaven.home=%M2_HOME%" org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher %MAVEN_CMD_LINE_ARGS% TO: %MAVEN_JAVA_EXE% %MAVEN_OPTS% -classpath C:\apache\maven-2.0\core\boot\classworlds-1.1-alpha-2.jar "-Dclassworlds.conf=%M2_HOME%\bin\m2.conf" "-Dmaven.home=%M2_HOME%" org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher %MAVEN_CMD_LINE_ARGS% Hardcoding the JAR works, so the following line (just before the above code) seems to have no effect: for %%i in ("%M2_HOME%"\core\boot\classworlds-*) do set CLASSWORLDS_JAR="%%i" COMMAND: mvn --version RESULT: Maven 2.0 Invalid switch "Invalid switch" appears after every command I tried. You may want to end processing earlier. solprovider --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
