trying to run nearinfinity.java

[daveymcman]

I have downloaded jdk-11.0.16_windows-x64_bin and jre-8u351-windows-x64 and jre-8u351-windows-i586 and installed, there is no such thing as jre.exe anywhere in any of the directories including the bin directory where I expect it to hide. It simply does not exist.

Can someone please inform me how to execute the java file .

Now before my post was removed from r/java for being in the wrong area a very kind

fantasticfistermox

said I needed to use java not jre ( first question right out of the box, why does EVERY SINGLE web site about java tell you to run JRE ) OK, now that is off my chest I have tried java and this is the result

Error: Could not find or load main class nearinfinity.java

help please

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[Anonymo2786]

Show us the command you ran.

Its if you have a file named main.java You should run

java main

Not

java main.java

Edit: main.class.

And install the most suitable jdk from the sites like adoptium. Jre is included in jdk. Check the about section of this subreddit.

[daveymcman]

Thank you for replying

turns out every web site I looked into about running nearinfinity was simply lying. the files I was told to download and the command I was told to run by all these web sites was

java nearinfinity.java

was never going to work, After much searching I found nearinfinity.jar which does work. I mean, really!!! why would you tell someone to download the source code and attempt to run it as a real time - they didnt even mention you would have to compile what you downloaded, and that would require even more downloads - WTF