Question

I have problem setting up %PATH% for ant. I think I have done it correctly, still it doesn’t work from cmd.exe

Here is what echo %ANT_HOME% shows

C:\Users\Fero>echo %ANT_HOME%
c:\ant

and echo %PATH%

C:\Users\Fero>echo %PATH%
.
.
LLIB\SAMPLES\REPL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap;"C:\Users\Fero\AppData\Local\Andro
id\android-sdk\platform-tools;C:\Development\android-sdk-windows\tools;%JAVA_HOM
E%\bin;c:\ant\bin;C:\Ruby193\bin;

and this is actual call for ant

C:\Users\Fero>ant
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

However if I do it manually:

C:\Users\Fero>c:\ant\bin\ant -version
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\li
b\tools.jar
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012

There also seems to be additional problem, my jre directory has all sorts of .jar files but none called tools.jar

Answer 1

Tools.jar: it’s inside JDK, not JRE. Please, install jdk and set JAVA_HOME to the installation directory.

Also, check you PATH environment variable. Two lines with dots look very strange. And there is non-matching quote in path.

And output of dir %ANT_HOME% can solve many problems.