Hello Andrew, try ant -p to get a look at the Ant default environment. Packaging is part of Java and not peculiar to Ant. A good tool to use when packaging and jars are a mystery is Jarscan found at:
http://www.inetfeedback.com/jarscan/index.jsp Insert the following Ant target snippet into your build.xml file and run: ant -p to make sure the newly inserted target is available. If you are successful at this point then run: ant showclasspath <!-- SNIPPET ANT TARGET TO BE INSERTED INTO BUILD.XML --> <target name="showclasspath"> <echo message="environment classpath: ${env.CLASSPATH}"/> </target> <!-- END SNIPPET --> The returned results should show the default classpath according to your machines environment. The above assumes some type of command line: Windows cmd, Linus bash terminal, Solaris korn shell, Mac command-line OS X terminal. You should also be able to perform the above using your favorite IDE: Eclipse, IDEA, Netbeans, etc. In the future to get better responses from the Ant community please initiate your email with more information such as: Ant version: 1.7.x OS: Debian 3.1 (or Windows XP SP2 or similar) JDK: 1.6.x Source: snippets only (build.xml, etc.) Logs: Ant logs, system logs, application logs (error messages, exceptions etc.) Environment: system variable values, ant properties (ex: classpath) etc. If you are fairly new to Ant then in all-likelihood you are fairly new to Java. Some good resources follow: http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/java5.html http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html http://www.codase.com/ http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/index.html http://www.javaranch.com/ http://www.javalobby.org http://www.dzone.com HTH, David. Andrew Connick wrote .. > Hello > > I am fairly new to Ant. I am trying to use it to compile java, but I am > having problems with 'package does not exist' I assume it's a classpath > issue. Although I can find plenty of advice on how to set the classpath, > I > cannot understand what it should be. > > My directory structure is something like > - classes > - base > - A.java > - forms > - B.java > - build.xml > - lib > > The first two lines of classes\forms\B.java are: > package tags; > import base.*; > > When I try to compile this with Ant, I get 'package does not exist'. My > understanding of the documentation is that I should not need any classpath > because it's the basedir. Also, if I run "ant -verbose" I see the following: > [javac] '-classpath' > [javac] 'C:\My Web Sites\CMS\V2\WEB-INF\classes;C:\Program Files\Apache > Software....... > > If I run javac from the command line, with directory set to "classes" > it is > fine. > > My classes\build.xml is: > <project name="Compile all" default="jar" basedir="."> > <property name="jarfile" value="cms_v2.jar" /> > > <target name="delete"> > <delete><fileset dir="." includes="**/*.class"/></delete> > </target> > > <target name="compile" depends="delete"> > <javac srcdir="base" destdir="." /> > <javac srcdir="forms" destdir="." /> > </target> > > <target name="jar" depends="compile"> > <jar basedir="." destfile="../lib/${jarfile}" includes="**/*.class" /> > </target> > > </project> > > Regards > Andrew Connick > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
