Classpath problems with JMF

Question

Hi all,
I'm trying to develop a simple application using JMF; I've problems importing classes from javax.media package. Problem with my application is that when I explicitly specify classpath as a command line argument to javac my application compiles; but if I use CLASSPATH environment variable it doesn't. Here's the output:
situ@situ-desktop:~/myjava/media$ cat First.java
import javax.media.*;
public class First{
situ@situ-desktop:~/myjava/media$ echo $CLASSPATH
/home/situ/jmf/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/jmf.jar:/home/situ/jmf/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/sound.jar:.:
situ@situ-desktop:~/myjava/media$ javac First.java
First.java:1: package javax.media does not exist
import javax.media.*;
^
1 error
situ@situ-desktop:~/myjava/media$ javac -classpath /home/situ/jmf/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/jmf.jar First.java
situ@situ-desktop:~/myjava/media$
Thanks.

Answer 1

According to the documentation, it wants you to set two environmental variables, JMFHOME and CLASSPATH. And it wants the CLASSPATH to be relative to that JMFHOME variable.
Try this.
setenv JMFHOME /home/someuser/JMF2.1.1
setenv CLASSPATH $JMFHOME/lib/jmf.jar:.:${CLASSPATH}