Ant - Setup

Apache Ant Ant is distributed under the Apache Software License, a fully-fledged open source license certified by the open source initiative.

The latest Apache Ant version, including its full-source code, class files, and documentation can be found at http://ant.apache.org.

Installing Apache Ant

It is assumed that you have already downloaded and installed Java Development Kit (JDK) on your computer. If not, please follow the instructions here.

• Ensure that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the folder where your JDK is installed.
• Download the binaries from http://ant.apache.org
• Unzip the zip file to a convenient location c:\folder. using Winzip, winRAR, 7-zip or similar tools.
• Create a new environment variable called ANT_HOME that points to the Ant installation folder, in this case c:\apache-ant-1.9.5-binfolder.
• Append the path to the Apache Ant batch file to the PATH environment variable. In our case this would be the c:\apache-ant-1.9.5-bin\bin folder.

Verifying Apache Ant Installation

To verify the successful installation of Apache Ant on your computer, type ant on your command prompt.

You should see an output similar to:

C:\>ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010

If you do not see the above output, then please verify that you have followed the installation steps properly.