*This is a simple wrapper that will add a java executable in /usr/bin in order to interecept java commands and convert any NIX paths to windows paths for cygwin.
This is NOT a helper to install java. You must already have java installed.
user@cygwin-pc ~/workspace
$ git clone https://github.com/reallistic/java_wrapper.git
user@cygwin-pc ~/workspace
$ cd java_wrapper
user@cygwin-pc ~/workspace/java_wrapper
$ ./install.sh -h
Usage: ./install.sh [OPTION]
Examples:
./install.sh --add-cmd 0 --java-cmd /cygdrive/d/jdk/bin/java
./install.sh --java-cmd /cygdrive/d/jdk/bin/java
./install.sh --dest /usr/bin/run-java
Arguments:
--add-cmd # { 1 (default) or 0 } Adds the JAVA_CMD variable to $HOME/.javawrapperrc
--java-cmd # Expicitly set the java command path.
--dest # Explicitly set the symlink dest. Default: /usr/bin/java
-h, --help # Print this help message and exit.
user@cygwin-pc ~/workspace/java_wrapper
$ ./install.sh
Symlinking wrapper to bin
Link made from: /cygdrive/d/workspace/java_wrapper/java_wrapper.sh ==> /usr/bin/java
Making sure it's executable
Adding JAVA_CMD to config
Installed successfully
This script was adapted from: http://saltnlight5.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-better-java-shell-script-wrapper.html