ANT_HOME variable for Windows XP

[Venkatesh Kumar]

Hi,
Im a newbie to ant .I was trying to follow the instruction sun j2ee 1.3 tutorial.THE O/S I am using is windows XP
ANT is installed in c:\unzipped
and i am setting ANT_HOME to c:\unzipped but still I am getting an error which says ANT_HOME set incoorectly or not able to find ant.
PLEASE HELP!!!

[Peter Storch]

Hi,
I don't need to mention that c:\unzipped is a bad location for ANT.

Where did you set the ANT_HOME variable?
You should set it in your windows control panel in the environment variables tab.
If you have an open command window you have to close and reopen it.

[Venkatesh Kumar]

Hi Peter Storch ,
Thanks for your response.I did set the ANT_HOME using control panel but it is still giving the same error.
Hemanth

[Peter Storch]

can you check if "echo %ANT_HOME%" gives you the correct path?

[Rene Larsen]

You need to add '%ANT_HOME%\bin' to your PATH
Rene

[Greg Schultz]

When you set ANT_HOME in the Environment settings, did you set it for your User Variables or as a System Variable?
Try both of them and see if that works.

[Gary VanMatre]

You might be missing your %ANT_HOME%\lib\ant.jar. I used WinXP to extract the ant-1.6.3 archive and for whatever reason it didn't extract all of the lib folder. I just use the win explorer to drill into the archive and copy and past the jar files. Weird..

[Mohan G Kumar]

The same problem i faced. Do not set ANT_HOME. Delete that ant home. Set or add entry to PATH variable <your and home>\bin. Now it will work. Can antbody help me in required set up's and bulid.xml to send mail after the build. Thanks in Advance.........

[prabhu pandurangan]

@Mohan

I am also facing this issue. I am not clear with what you say:

'Set or add entry to PATH variable <your and home>\bin.'

Please let me know in detail.

[ashik chollangi]

Hey guys,set ANT_HOME to the C:\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin and then add C:\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin in path ..then it works....

and also I recommned ot to use this way..this way is just to make projects without eclipse ...Use eclipse guys there is no need for this additional work..

[Tim Holloway]

ashik chollangi wrote:Hey guys,set ANT_HOME to the C:\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin and then add C:\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin in path ..then it works....

and also I recommned ot to use this way..this way is just to make projects without eclipse ...Use eclipse guys there is no need for this additional work..

Actually, Eclipse isn't nearly as flexible as Ant (or Maven) at building complex projects. So I often use Ant inside Eclipse.

But I seriously recommend that any good project be buildable without using an IDE, even if it's just an option. I've been burned too many times where I couldn't do a build because either my IDE was the wrong version or because it didn't have exactly the same desktop settings as someone else's IDE. Batch builds are less tempermental. Plus they can run on non-gui machines.

[Peter Johnson]

Wow, a 6-year old zombie...

Anyway, in case someone else trips over this in the future, this advice is incorrect:

set ANT_HOME to the C:\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin

For this example, ANT_HOME should be set to C:\apache-ant-1.7.1 (leave off "\bin").

[Shrikant Nikam]

This worked for me !!