Actually I'm a new to ant. I want to know the name of the default ant config file name. Is it build.xml or other name? If is it can I change that name? If so, how can I execute the script?
Yes, the default build file is build.xml in the current directory.
So if you execute
ant
Then ant will attempt to load build.xml in the current directory.
You can specify a file with a different name or location by specifying with the "-f" option, for example
ant -f ../other_dir/build.xml
or
ant -f special.xml
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I'm trying to configure a job that runs with Ant on Jenkins.
I was wonder if there is an option to change the path of the build.xml file
(that it will not run from /var/lib/jenkins/jobs//workspace/)
Thanks in advance
Try to set -Dbasedir=/do/start/here in java options or system properties in the job configuration
Downloaded Ant and set it up successfully, however when I run from command line I see the following:
C:\>ant
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed
http://pastebin.com/pkHiPnHi
I want to build a JAR file and then invoke that file. Do I just need to bring the build.xml file, containing my project, into my new Ant directory?
Check how to write a simple build file :
http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html
In eclipse, I can tell my external ant tool to run with stuff in the classpath.
If i want to run ant from the command line, how would i do that?
For argument's sake, the classpath i want to add is c:\some\folder\here\hooray.jar
Use the -lib argument. From the Ant docs on this page:
Additional directories to be searched may be added by using the -lib option. The -lib option specifies a search path. Any jars or classes in the directories of the path will be added to Ant's classloader.
this is a batch file that i have. It is located in C:\Work\6.70_Extensions\Lab Tools\ folder.
ANT.BAT:
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;.;c:\JavaMail\javamail-1.3\mail.jar;c:\JavaMail\javamail-1.3\mailapi.jar;c:\JavaMail\javamail-1.3\pop3.jar;c:\JavaMail\javamail-1.3\smtp.jar;c:\JavaMail\jaf-1.0.2\activation.jar
CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
#echo on
%ANT_HOME%\bin\ant -logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.MailLogger -q -buildfile "Master Build.xml"
pause
along with ant.bat, i have a Master Build.xml file located inside the same folder.
When i double click on ant.bat, it will execute the Master Build.xml ant script properly.
However, whenever i try to use another application to open the batch file's absolute path, it always state that Master Build.xml file does not exist!
I tried to open the absolute path using both console application and another ANT Script(via Cruisecontrol framework) but both gives the same error. What is the error here?
for your information here is what ive done with cruisecontrol:
create config.xml (to set intervals for builds)
create nightbuild.xml (so that config.xml will go into it to perform required tasks)
nightbuild.xml will run several console applications to sort files, checkout files from version control etc
lastly, nightbuild.xml will execute ant.bat file to execute the build
These files, config.xml and nightbuild.xml are found in C:\build
When you execute from a directory other than the one containing Master Build.xml, Ant will fail to find the build file, which it expects to be in the current working directory.
You could set an additional environment variable to specify the path to the build file, e.g.
%ANT_HOME%\bin\ant -buildfile "%MASTER_BUILD%\Master Build.xml"
If you set your variable to an absolute path (e.g. C:\Work\6.70_Extensions\Lab Tools) then it will always work. If you use a relative path (e.g. .\Lab Tools), then it will only work if executed from the relative root dir.
(BTW, life will probably be easier if you use buildfiles without spaces in their names, e.g. master_build.xml rather than Master Build.xml).
I am using Apache Ant scripts for building a web application. I have written some targets in the build.xml file and the script is running fine. I remember using just "build" command to run ant build instead of "ant build". Can anyone tell me how is that achieved? I was a bit curious on this.
There's no built in "build" command. You could create a simple script file called "build" in the same directory that launched the ant build.
Create a text file with this as the contents:
ant build
In windows save this as a file called build.bat then you can just type build from the command line to start your build.
On unix or linux, save the file as build, then make it executable (with chmod +x build). You'll need to type ./build to get it to run.
I don't think there's a lot of value doing this to replace the simple case of ant build, but if you have to regularly run a build that has multiple targets, or need to pass in certain system variables then it could come in useful.
Maybe your are remembering typing "ant" instead of "ant build" in the past. This is possible to setup. You just need to set default attribute on the root project element in your Ant script to the name of the target you want invoked when an explicit target isn't specified.
For instance...
<project name="myproj" default="build">
...
</project>