Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. This should be set to the directory where the JDK is installed. See Installing Ant for examples on how to do this for your operating system.
+Make sure you have downloaded any auxilliary jars required to build tasks you are interested in. The list of auxilliary tasks and requirements is in lib/README
Run bootstrap.bat (Windows) or bootstrap.sh (UNIX)
to build a bootstrap version of Ant.
When finished, use
diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..33f78fd95 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The required libraries should be placed here. + +The dependencies are: + +junit.jar - required for junit tasks, available at www.junit.org +stylebook.jar - required by stylebook task, available in CVS repository of xml.apache.org +testlet.jar - required for test task, available with Avalon via java.apache.org/framework +jakarta-regexp-1.1.jar - required by some mappers, available at http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/ +???oro.jar??? - required for some mappers, available at http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/ +???antlr.jar???- required for antlr task, available at www.antlr.org +bsf.jar - required for script task, available at http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/bsf/ +rhino.jar - required for script task if you want to use javascript, available at www.mozilla.org +jpython.jar - required for script task if you want to use python, available at www.jpython.org +