CF 10 - cfcompile.bat

Jay, as the purpose of the precompile utility is (by default) to simply precompile them the same way that CF would, running the tool puts the resulting .class files in the same place they would go when CF compiles them itself during normal page execution (assuming you have “save class files” enabled in the CF Admin Caching page). I realize you may just not know that location (and it’s not mentioned on the cf docs page for the cfcompile tool).

In CF10, that location would be \cfusion\wwwroot\WEB-INF\cfclasses (where is cfusion if you have not created multiple instances).

If anyone would wonder, no, it does not matter whether you have “save class files” enabled in the CF Admin when you try to use the cfcompile tool. It will save files to that cfclasses directory, regardless.

(Also, note that if you had used the -deploy argument for the cfcompile tool, then that WOULD let you name a destination directory for the resulting files. This form of the tool is intended for you to create files that you would take and put on some other server, and they would be sourceless CFM files, not class files.)

Let us know if that helps.

/charlie