Running a BAT file from ANT - ant

Question

I have gone through number of posts on the very forum but couldn't sort it out. I am trying to run a BAT file from ANT script. The folder hierarchy is like this
- Project
| - build.xml
| - build-C
| | - test.bat
The ANT file that i wrote so for is
<project name="MyProject" basedir=".">
<property name="buildC" value="${basedire}\build-C" />
<exec dir="${buildC}" executable="cmd" os="Windows XP">
<arg line="/c test.bat"/>
</exec>
</project>
The bat file content is
echo In Build-C Test.bat
It says that build failed .. :s i dun know what wrong am i doing ?

Answer 1

<property name="buildC" value="${basedire}\build-C" />
This should be ${basedir} I guess? Use
<echo>${buildC}</echo>
to make sure the dir is correct.
And shouldn't
<exec dir="${buildC}" executable="test.bat" os="Windows XP" />
do the job?

Answer 2

Hopefully this will help expand on the already given/accepted answers:
I suggest executing cmd with the batch script as a parameter:
<exec failonerror="true" executable="cmd" dir="${buildC}">
<arg line="/c "${buildC}/test.bat""/>
</exec>
Not sure if it is necessary to use the absolute path "${buildC}/test.bat" since dir is specified, but I put it just in case. It might be enough to use /c test.bat.
My project executes a batch script on Windows operating systems & a shell script on all others. Here is an example:
<target name="foo">
<!-- properties for Windows OSes -->
<condition property="script.exec" value="cmd">
<os family="windows"/>
</condition>
<condition property="script.param" value="/c "${basedir}/foo.bat"">
<os family="windows"/>
</condition>
<!-- properties for non-Windows OSes -->
<property name="script.exec" value="sh"/>
<property name="script.param" value=""${basedir}/foo.sh""/>
<echo message="Executing command: ${script.exec} ${script.param}"/>
<exec failonerror="true" executable="${script.exec}" dir="${basedir}">
<arg line="${script.param}"/>
</exec>
</target>