Way to simply javac task?

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I'm using Ant 1.7 on Mac 10.6.3. In my javac task, I'm loading each JAR into the classpath individually, like so ...

	<property name="lib30" location="${classes}/rome-1.0.jar" /> 
	<property name="lib31" location="${classes}/rome-fetcher-1.0.jar" /> 
	<property name="src"  location="${lvcva.checkout.dir}/${lvcva.java.src}" />
<property name="libs" location="${lib1};${lib2};${lib3};${lib4};${lib5};${lib6};${lib7};${lib8};${lib9};${lib10};${lib11};${lib12};${lib13};${lib14};${lib15};${lib16};${lib17}:${lib18}:${lib19}:${lib20};${lib21};${lib22};${lib23};${lib24};${lib25};${lib26};${lib27};${lib28};${lib29};${lib30};${lib31}" />
	
	<!-- START General Compile -->
	<mkdir dir="${classes}/build"/>
	<javac debug="true"  debuglevel="lines, vars, and source" srcdir="${classes}/src/lvcva" destdir="${classes}/build" classpath="${libs}" />

Is there a way to simplify the "libs" property so I just include all JARs within the directory? Grateful for any syntax or examples, - Dave

[Martijn Verburg]

Have you tried using IVY?

[Tim Holloway]

Normally, you'd specify complex classpaths for compiling (and execution) using path elements, not as a string property. I think, as a matter of fact, that you can do a wildcard inclusion of jars in a directory if you do it that way.

[Dave Alvarado]

Is this related to Ant? If so, could you provide an example of how I can avoid listing all those JARs and simply list something that says "include all JARs from this directory"? Thanks, - Dave

[Tim Holloway]

Dave Alvarado wrote:Is this related to Ant? If so, could you provide an example of how I can avoid listing all those JARs and simply list something that says "include all JARs from this directory"? Thanks, - Dave

http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#path

[David Newton]

(Even if you *were* going to do it this way, is naming things "lib30" really helpful?!)