How to use JFreeChart?

It might be a silly question but I didn't figured it out how to use it.

I have downloaded JFreeChart from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreechart/files/latest/download?source=files

and I don't use Eclipse or Netbeans or Intellij or any other. How can I compile my project within these files on command line ?

Thanks is advance..

Solution

Extract zip file you have just downloaded. Copy jars from lib folder to your lib folder and add all the jars to your classpath using -cp switch.

However what are you going to do then? If you do not use IDE you can write code using any editor you want however it is at least 10 times slower than using IDE. Managing dependencies manually and compiling code using command line compiler is possible too but it starts to be extremely complicated and time consuming once you have external dependencies (as in your case).

So, if you want to create something beyond hello world take you time and start working with build tool like maven or gradle and IDE.

Suppose that I have my project structure as following:

hello
    src
       Hello.java
    classes
    lib
      one.jar
      two.jar

In this case I have compile it using command

javac -cp ../lib/one.jar:../lib/two.jar Hello.java

run this command from src folder. Use ; instead of : if you are on windows.