[MCL-160] Game does not launch

The JVM crashes with a java exception, when ran in CMD i get the following:

C:\Users\USER\Desktop>java -jar minecraft.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/lwjgl/LWJGLExcept
ion
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Unknown Source)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(Unknown Source)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.lwjgl.LWJGLException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 6 more

Comments 3

Tails 2013-01-18T20:40:18Z

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Aidan Taylor 2013-01-18T21:05:10Z

I thought of a Java Exception as a code initialization issue (which in some ways is a bug), but i shall go to the link you have provided.

kumasasa 2013-01-18T21:08:08Z

You don't use the default launcher, so that the LWJGL is not downloaded automatically

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/lwjgl/LWJGLExcept