Tuesday, 9 February 2016

How to setup Apache Ant on Mac OS X

Folks, presenting a quick tutorial on how to setup the build tool Apache Ant on a Mac OS X machine.

Download the relevant ant archive version from Apache Ant homepage. For this example we download the latest v1.9.6.
Store it locally at any location you like; maybe like /Users/Username/apache-ant-1.9.6

Now lets edit the .bash_profile to define the ANT_HOME environment variable.

sudo vim ~/.bash_profile

Add the following lines to it (make sure to replace with your own username in the path):

export ANT_HOME=/Users/IroncladZone/apache-ant-1.9.6/
export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin

Now source ~/.bash_profile and restart terminal.

Check the above settings by looking up the ant version in terminal :

ant -v
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015
Trying the default build file: build.xml
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

This means your ant is ready to use for builds. Going forward all you have to do is pass the build.xml to trigger the build.

Folks, watch out for this space for more basic to intermediate to advanced tutorials coming up soon.

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