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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
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as I said, it is not very clear.
Setup
Before you can run ant there is some additional set up you will need to do:
- Add the bin directory to your path.
- Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Ant. On some operating systems the ant wrapper scripts can guess ANT_HOME (Unix dialects and Windows NT/2000) - but it is better to not rely on this behavior.
- Optionally, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable (see the Advanced section below). This should be set to the directory where your JDK is installed.
1: I take it this is the bin for the ant prog, in the normal path, but not classpath?
2: is this a new variable which I name as ANT_HOME?
3: I have my java set up nicely at the moment, and the classpaths are fine, but do I need to make a new variable with JAVA_HOME?
I can't see it being that easy, to be honest
another thing, it goes on to building ant, do I have to build it as well?
ik
EDIT:
I done this, but it still does not recognise Ant.
I have downloaded a zip file for my windows machine, and extracted the zip file to a directory called
ant in C:
C:\
ant
I have appended my classpath to include C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5\lib\ant.jar;
then I appended my path with C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin;
I then made a new variable and called it ANT_HOME and set the environment as C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5