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Java built and run successfully in IntelliJ IDEA but failed to compile in Mac terminal

I wrote my java code in IntelliJ IDEA and it builds and runs perfectly fine, but when I tried to use javac to compile the code in my Mac terminal, I keep getting below errors:

% javac Main.java 
Main.java:34: error: cannot find symbol
com.business.Helper clsHelper = new com.business.Helper();
            ^       
symbol:   class Helper

location: package com.business

both my Main and Helper classes are in the same package (com.business), so I dont understand why javac wouldn't be working.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • fixed my problem by build an artifacts (that builds a .jar file), and run use this to run the .jar file in my terminal: java -cp xxxx.jar xxx.xxx.Main where xxx.xxx is the package that has Main (entry point).