Ant - Installation (Windows based)

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System requirement

JDK installed on your system, version 1.8 or later

java -version

java version "1.8.0_231"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_231-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.231-b11, mixed mode)

Steps

Download and unzip

Download the latest binary
Uncompress the binary in a directory called the ANT_HOME. For example

C:\apache-ant-1.10.8\

Add ant binary in path

Add ANT_HOME/bin to your PATH environment variable. Ex for a windows environment variable:

Create the configuration file and set the JAVA_HOME

Create the configuration file antrc_pre.bat into your userprofile directory

The configuration file on Linux is called HOME/.antrc

echo %USERPROFILE%\antrc_pre.bat

C:\Users\username\antrc_pre.bat

Add JAVA_HOME in it

set JAVA_HOME=C:\java\jdk1.8.0_231

Test

Test if java home is well set by calling ant

ant

# there is no java message, that's good
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

Ant works. It just needs an individual buildfile as input.

Install the additional jars

From the ANT_HOME directory, run the following command to get the library dependencies of most of the Ant tasks that require them. Without this step, many of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. Example

cd C:\apache-ant-1.10.8
ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system
REM for IDE that include their own ant system, you can install them in the user scope
ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=user

where:

fetch.xml is an Ant script that install almost all the dependencies the optional Ant tasks need.
-Ddest can take one of the following values:
- system - store in Ant's lib directory (Recommended)
- user - store in the user's home directory
- optional - store in Ant's source code lib/optional directory, used if building Ant source code

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nonm2-macros:

init-no-m2:

init-cache:

-setup-temp-cache:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Users\gerard\.ant\tempcache

-fetch-netrexx:

-fetch-netrexx-no-commons-net:
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netrexx:
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init-cache:

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all:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 38 seconds

Optionally, install an Apache Ant™ Libraries

Documentation / Reference

Installation Apache Ant