Help with Ant build

[saurav sarkar]

Hi All,

I am trying to build a file using Ant in Eclipse IDE.
I am getting the below error.

Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK


Please help what could be the reason.
I have added tools.jar to the classpath.

Thanks in advance,
Saurav

[Raghavan Muthu]

Originally posted by saurav sarkar:


Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK

Can you check what is your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set with? It should have been set to the JDK and not its "bin" directory (as the HOME variable implies).

Also, you can have an environment variable called ANT_HOME and set it with the "home" directory where you have extracted "ant" in your drive.

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by saurav sarkar:

I have added tools.jar to the classpath.

Where? If I remember correctly, where you *need* to do it is in the Ant preferences inside Eclipse...