Do you want to assign path to the environment variable PATH from inside the ant task ? What if you use your ant task, but assign the environment variable before to launch the ant task ? It could be a visibility problem
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: Lis Maria [mailto:lismari...@gmail.com] Inviato: giovedì 22 novembre 2012 9.38 A: Ant Users List Oggetto: Exception with Ant exec task Hi , Below is the code snippet i am trying to execute : <target name="compile"> <exec executable="<absolutepath>/abc.exe" failonerror="true" outputproperty="validationResult"> <env key="PATH" path="<absolute path of the .exe>"/> <arg value="xxxx"/> </exec> </target> Exception i am getting : Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program " <absolutepath>/abc.exe": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:475) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:610) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute$Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Execute.java:862) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.launch(Execute.java:481) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.execute(Execute.java:495) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExecute(ExecTask.java:631) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExec(ExecTask.java:672) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.execute(ExecTask.java:498) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:392) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:413) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:811) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109) Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:164) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:81) at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:468) ... 24 more Can someone help ? Executing perfect outside ant. Thanks, Lis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org