Question

I am currently using the -logfile flag on my ant script. Is there a way to display the ant output to the console and have it log the output too?

I can not download other applications to acheive this. Needs to be native to windows or ant.

Thanks

Answer 1

Ant has a recorder task that can be used to log all or part of a build to a file.

To just record the whole build to a file add a line like:

<record name="build.log" />

near to the start of your buildfile. There are options to set the level of verbosity and control log file appending too.

You can run multiple recorders during a build – say to capture a summary to one log file, and full details to a longer second log file. You can also use the action attribute of the task to run the recording for just part of the build.