Installing Ant on Windows XP

Installing Ant on Windows XP

1. Unzip file apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.zip, e.g. under c:/tools
2. Define a new environment variable ANT_HOME = c:/tools/apache-ant-1.7.1 like this:

   REG QUERY "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "JAVA_HOME"
   REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "ANT_HOME" /d "c:/tools/apache-ant-1.7.1"

   The first command should read the JAVA_HOME variable - the place where Java is installed. Second one sets the ANT_HOME variable.
3. Add another directory to the PATH variable - i.e. add before all other path entries %ANT_HOME%bin and separate it from the next PATH values by a semicolon (;)

   REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "PATH" /d "%ANT_HOME\bin";%PATH%

4. You can also set the environment variables manually by WinKey + Pause > Advanced > Environment Variables and editing System variables (which are preferable to the user ones) - see references below.

Links

1. Manually Setting Windows Environment Variables

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