From 99c578262a7e6a5014b639a93acbbd8d89c5f589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Atherton To get up and running with Ant quickly, follow these steps:
+ To get up and running with the binary edition of Ant quickly, follow these steps:
Getting Ant
The Short Story
-
JAVA_HOME
to your Java environment, ANT_HOME
to
the directory you uncompressed Ant to, and add ${ANT_HOME}/bin
(Unix) or
%ANT_HOME%/bin
(Windows) to your PATH
. See Setup for details.ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system
to get the library dependencies
-of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do this, many of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional Tasks for
-details and other options for the -Ddest parameter.ANT_HOME
directory run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system
to get
+the library dependencies of most of the Ant tasks that require them. If you don't do this, many of the dependent
+Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional Tasks for details and other options
+for the -Ddest parameter.
+Note that the links in the list above will give more details about each of the steps, +should you need them. Or you can just continue reading the rest of this document. +
+The short story for working with the Ant source code (not needed if you are working with the binary edition) is:
-Note that not all dependencies are gathered using fetch.xml
. For example, netrexx.jar and jai.jar
-require you to manually download the files. See Library Dependencies.for the
-URLs where you can get these files.
+Note that not all dependencies are gathered using fetch.xml
. Tasks that depend on
+commercial software, in particular, will require you to have the commercial software installed
+in order to be used.
The Apache Ant Project also provides additional tasks and types that are available as separately