My Java code only works when ran from IDE, not terminal

Question

I can run my Java program fine in the IDE but when I try this very first step in the command line:

1. javac Main.java Test.java then I get a series of errors.

The errors are saying all of my imports do not exist

Main.java:3: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
                          ^
Main.java:4: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.Platform;
                          ^
Main.java:5: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
                          ^
Main.java:6: error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
                          ^
Main.java:7: error: package org.openqa.selenium.remote does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
                                 ^
Main.java:8: error: package org.openqa.selenium.remote does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
                                 ^
Main.java:16: error: cannot find symbol
        DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
        ^
  symbol:   class DesiredCapabilities
  location: class Main
Main.java:16: error: cannot find symbol
        DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
                                       ^
  symbol:   class DesiredCapabilities
  location: class Main
Main.java:25: error: cannot find symbol
        WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps);
        ^
  symbol:   class WebDriver
  location: class Main
Main.java:25: error: cannot find symbol
        WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps);
                               ^
  symbol:   class RemoteWebDriver
  location: class Main
Main.java:27: error: cannot find symbol
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        ^
  symbol:   class WebElement
  location: class Main
Main.java:27: error: cannot find symbol
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
                                                ^
  symbol:   variable By
  location: class Main
12 errors

What am i Doing wrong? How can I get my code to find these imports correctly?

EDIT: I have looked at the other answers and they are not working for me. All of my jar files are located here C:\Users\NROLL97\Documents\jars. Here is an example of what I've tried:

javac -cp "C:\Users\NROLL97\Documents\jars\*.jar:." Main.java

Answer 1

For anyone else who might come across this... Something like this is needed: java -cp ".\target\classes;lib\*;" org.testng.TestNG ParallelTestXML.xml

.\target\classes is the path to the class files (not the .java files) and lib\* is the path to all of my jars in the lib folder.

Now all necessary dependencies will be found