Ant integration with Eclipse [Build.Properties]

[John Vergis]

Hi,
I am using build.xml in Eclipse to build my project, I am making use of the Ant Plugin provided and also configured it as an External Tool. It doesn't read the properties file.
How do i specify the argument "propertyfile" while running from Eclipse. [Run->External Tools -> MyBuild] where myBuild is the external tool which I configured for the Ant Build.
Thanks
John

[Tim West]

I'm not sure if you're already doing this (in which case it'll sound like some really stupid advice), but have you got something like this in your build file?

<project whatever blah>
  [B]<property file="localBuild.ant.properties"/>[/B]

Cheers,

--Tim
(edited to make <s show up properly...)
[ May 04, 2004: Message edited by: Tim West ]

[John Vergis]

Hi Tim
Thanks for the response.
At present I am using that way, i have mentioned my property file in the build.xml, I don't want to do that, i would like to set it as an argument, the way when we run from command prompt like c:\blah>ant -propertyfile build.properties <target>
Any idea to set it in Eclipse while running the build.xml.
Thanks
John

[Tim West]

If you go to the External Tools window where you set up your Ant targets, you can give command-line arguments in the Main tab -> arguments textbox.
I added -propertyfile "foo.properties", and got the Ant response

Could not load property file foo.properties: d:\workspace\timothyw_TMSSUN_DEV\tmssunvob\Implementation\foo.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)

So I guess it's working

--Tim