Ant Build file HELP!!-URGENT

Hello,

Im a newbie at using the ant tool. I been doing lots of reading but im a lil confused. My build.xml is the following:

<project default="all">
	<property name="tst-dir" location="test" />
	<property name="TALK" value="false" /> :mrgreen: 
	<path id="classpath.base">
	</path>	
	<path id="classpath.test">
		<pathelement location="C:\Program Files\eclipse\plugins\org.junit4_4.3.1.jar" />
		<pathelement location="${tst-dir}" />
		<path refid="classpath.base" />
	</path>	
	<target name="compile-test">
		<javac srcdir="${tst-dir}" verbose="${TALK}" debug="true">
			<classpath refid="classpath.test" />
		</javac>
	</target>		
	<target name="clean-compile-test">
		<delete verbose="${TALK}">
			<fileset dir="${tst-dir}" includes="**/*.class" />
		</delete>
	</target>		
	<target name="test" depends="compile-test">
		<junit>
			<classpath refid="classpath.test" />
			<formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
			<batchtest>
				<fileset dir="${tst-dir}" includes="**/*Tests.class" />
			</batchtest>			
		</junit>
	</target>		
	<target name="all" depends="test" />
	<target name="clean" depends="clean-compile-test" />
</project>

but whenever i try to run it i get the following error:

Buildfile: C:\Users\bmesta\Desktop\workspace\Project2\build.xml
compile-test:
[javac] Compiling 3 source files
[javac] C:\Users\bmesta\Desktop\workspace\Project2\test\project2\GSTCalcFrameTest.java:59: cannot find symbol
[javac] symbol : class GSTCalcFrame
[javac] location: class project2.GSTCalcFrameTest
[javac] GSTCalcFrame aFrame = new GSTCalcFrame("GST Calculator",new GSTCalcPanel());
......
......
[javac] 90 errors

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\bmesta\Desktop\workspace\Project2\build.xml:14: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

Total time: 1 second

I don't know how to fix this and its getting me frustrated. If someone can help me fix this problem it will be greatly appreciate it.

anyone??? come on guys im sure there is someone out there that can help me. As you can see im really desperate.

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Oh and welcome to JavaRanch!

Now on to your question. The compiler error indicates compile-test can't find the main code. That compiles uses a classpath of classpath.test. Which has classpath.base in the classpath which is blank. So which line of code do you think includes the GSTCalcFrame class?

Jeanne Boyarsky thanks for you help. to tell you the truth i didn't write the build.xml from scratch I kind of copy from a tutorial and did some modifications according to my need. I knew the problem was in the target compile test. I just don't know what should i put in it. especially in the parameter srcdir and in refid? i tried putting the location of my javac.exe in the srcdir and leaving the refid the same but i got an error. In the image i attached you can see my folder structure. I dont really know why they define their path id to be classpath.base and their classpath ref id to be classpath.test. Are these packages?

I think you'd have a little better luck if you took a step back, as opposed to putting random things in attributes (like the Java compiler path into an attribute meant to indicate the Java source directory).

As Jeanne said, you don't reference your non-test code (package) in your build file.