Question

I have a book that says to do the following.

1. Add a JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME environment variable. – check
2. Add $JAVA_HOME/bin and $ANT_HOME/bin to my path variable – check

When I then go to the command prompt and try ant -version it says ant is not a recognized command. If I then take the value I plugged into the ANT_HOME variable and use it in place of $ANT_HOME it all works. Is this the way it’s supposed to work in windows? I’m not sure so I just figured that whatever was put in ANT_HOME was then parsed in the path variable when used as $ANT_HOME. Thanks.

Answer 1

you can try the following:

SET ANT_HOME=my_path_to_ant_folder
SET JAVA_HOME=my_path_to_jdk_folder
SET PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%/bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;