Ant.bat is meant to be used to build's, as in build.xml or any other ANTfile.xml. If you want to run an ANT called build.xml that is located in the basedir of the the .bat file, it will run automatically without having to designate which xml to run ant.bat on. If you want to run ant.bat on a file you would type ant -f[name of file including path]
FYI, there are better ways of manipulating ANT than on the console. You can download various IDE's, like Eclipse, that's what I use that work easier and are very helpful. Have fun ANTing Josh -----Original Message----- From: Carter, Donald C (Genworth) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 18:03 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: Difficulties Installing Ant Hello, I'm trying to install ant and running into some frustrating problems. I setup the env variables and execute ant.bat as indicated by the install.html file in the docs, and the ant.bat execution fails due to a lack of a build.xml file. I checked and there is no build.xml file to be found in the ant directory. This is a copy of my output: c:\>set ANT_HOME=c:\apache-ant-1.7.0 c:\>set JAVA_HOME=c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02 c:\>set PATH=C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\X 11R6\bin;c:\Oracle\Ora10g\bin;c:\Oracle\Ora10g\jre\1.4.2\bin\client;c:\O racle\Or a10g\jre\1.4.2\bin;c:\Program Files\CA\SC\CAWIN\;c:\WINDOWS\system32;c:\WINDOWS; c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\Program Files\CA\DSM\bin;c:\PROGRA~1\CA\SC\CAM\bin;c :\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;c:\Program Files\Embarcadero \Shared;c:\apache-ant-1.7.0\bin c:\>cd apache-ant-1.7.0\bin c:\apache-ant-1.7.0\bin>ant.bat Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed Has anyone seen similar problems when installing ant? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Clay Carter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
