Re: Some questions on Ant

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 14 May 2013 11:21:02 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<04616893-b376-43e9-9758-c3f5a44dcb0f@googlegroups.com>
subhaba...@...wrote:

I read the URL
"http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/classpath.h


Your formatting was little messed up on the Interwebz.

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I went to Computer--->Properties-->Advanced System Settings-->Environment

Variables-->ANT_HOME/JAVA_HOME

In JAVA_HOME Variable Value is now:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_21"


Good.

Updated to the latest JDK and ported Eclipse also with it.

In ANT_HOME Variable Value is now:
"C:\Program Files\Java\apache-ant-1.9.0"


Good.

While installing it tried to follow:
"http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html"


Good.

As I am giving

C:\>Ant


That should be spelled "ant". Only the fact that Windows is weird about letter case
saved you there.

Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!


Read the directions. Where does the "ant" command find its build file?

http://ant.apache.org/manual/running.html#commandline

Read the directions.

Build failed

C:\>ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.0 compiled on March 5 2013

C:\>ant -help
....
....
....

these are working.

Means "So Ant works."("http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html")


Good.

But, as I am giving

C:\Program Files\Java\mallet-2.0.7>ant


What is that directory? What is in that directory?

The build is still failed.


What are you trying to build?

I'm checking the things.

I worked out following things:

C:\Users\subhabrata\Documents\lingpipe-4.1.0.tar\lingpipe-4.1.0>ant
Buildfile: C:\Users\subhabrata\Documents\lingpipe-4.1.0.tar\lingpipe-4.1.0\build.xml


See how that works now that you've read the directions?

What is that directory? What is in that directory? What are you trying to build?

compile:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second


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Lew

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