Tuesday, 5 April 2016

How to install and execute Ant ?


Setup Ant
  • Download latest stable zip file from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
  • Unzip downloaded file into a directory
  • Setup Environment Variables Define ANT_HOME to be the location where Ant was unzipped.
  • Define JAVA_HOME to be the location where the JDK is installed.
  • Add %ANT_HOME%\bin to the PATH

Ant Project Help
ant -projecthelp
will list descriptions and targets for a build file.


Ant Command Line
ant [options] [target-names]
  • runs targets with specified names, preceded by targets on which they depend
  • can specify multiple target names separated by spaces
  • omit target-name to run the default target

-D option specifies a property that can be used by targets and tasks.
  e.g. -Dproperty-name=property-value


ant -help
lists other command line options

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