diff --git a/docs/manual/install.html b/docs/manual/install.html index 2651ed4d3..c70609a81 100644 --- a/docs/manual/install.html +++ b/docs/manual/install.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -Apache Ant User Manual +Installing Ant @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Ant CVS repository on-line.

System Requirements

+Ant has been used successfully on many platforms, including Linux, +commercial flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX, +Windows 9x and NT, Novell Netware 6 and MacOS X.

To build and use Ant, you must have a JAXP-compliant XML parser installed and available on your classpath.

@@ -52,10 +55,17 @@ You can then either put the jars from your preferred parser into Ant's

For the current version of Ant, you will also need a JDK installed on -your system, version 1.1 or later. A future version of Ant will require -JDK 1.2 or later. +your system, version 1.1 or later. Some tasks work better on post-1.1 systems; +some tasks only work on Java 1.2 and successors. +A future version of Ant -Ant 2.0- will require JDK 1.2 or later, though +Ant 1.x strives to retain 1.1 compatibility. +

+Note: The Microsoft JVM/JDK is not adequate on its own, although the MS +compiler is supported.

- +

+Note #2: If a JDK is not present, only the JRE runtime, then many tasks will not work. +

Installing Ant

The binary distribution of Ant consists of three directories: @@ -164,6 +174,11 @@ must be set to the directory containing where you installed Ant. Again this is set by the Ant scripts to the value of the ANT_HOME environment variable. +The supplied ant shell scripts all support an ANT_OPTS +environment variable which can be used to supply extra options +to ant. Some of the scripts also read in an extra script stored +in the users home directory, which can be used to set such options. Look +at the source for your platform's invocation script for details.

Building Ant