First, you will need to fetch the Myrmidon source from CVS. The source can be source in the proposal/myrmidon directory of the Ant source tree. You should check out the jakarta-ant CVS module, as described here.

To build Myrmidon, use the build.xml build script. You will need to use Ant 1.4.1 or later. The default target builds the Myrmidon distribution into the dist directory. The distribution is a ready-to-run installation of Myrmidon.

There are a number features that are not built unless the appropriate optional Jar files are found in the lib directory:

Feature	Jar File	Download From
SMB VFS support (Samba, Windows shares)	jcifs.jar	jcifs.samba.org. Note: there are problems using the 0.6.1 release. Try 0.6.0 instead.
FTP VFS support	netcomponents.jar	www.savarese.org

To run Myrmidon, use one of the following methods:

Launcher Script

On Windows and Unix platforms, you can use the ant script in the distribution's bin directory. The following environment variables can be used, but are not required (except on Windows 9x - see below). Variable Description JAVA_HOME The directory that the JDK is installed in. JAVACMD The command to use to start the JVM. Defaults to java. ANT_HOME The directory containing the Myrmidon distribution. This must be set when running on Windows 95, 98 or Me.

Executable Jar File

The Myrmidon distribution includes an executable Jar file, which can be used to run Myrmidon. Use the following command: prompt> java -jar ant-home/bin/myrmidon-launcher.jar options

When started, Myrmidon looks for a project file called build.ant in the current directory. A different project file can be specified using the -f command-line option. Myrmidon executes the targets given on the command-line, or the default target if none is given. For example, the following executes the targets clean and build from the project file my-project.xml:

prompt> ant -f my-project.xml clean build

Run Myrmidon with the -h command-line option for a list of the command-line options that are available.