Question

I have the default generated ant script for my netbeans java project and it works great on my windows desktop, I got my dist folder with the lib folder inside.
Now I have the same files and folders on a debian system and run ant, but the dist folder never contains the dependency jars in the lib folder.

The settings in the project and so on are correct.

I am using ant 1.8.0 with debian 6.0.3 and ant 1.8.2 with windows xp.

Here is the ant script generated by netbeans http://pastebin.com/dk2x8Na1.

What is wrong?

Answer 1

I found the “mistake”:

I compared the log files and found the problem:

-do-jar-with-libraries-pack:
Skipped because property ‘do.mkdist’ not set.

You can find in the file build.xml following:

<condition property="do.mkdist">
    <and>
        <isset property="do.archive"/>
        <isset property="libs.CopyLibs.classpath"/>
        <not>
            <istrue value="${mkdist.disabled}"/>
        </not>
    </and>
</condition>

It seems that libs.CopyLibs.classpath isn’t set. There is an implementation from NetBeans, which you can find it here java/ant/extra. The lib is called org-netbeans-modules-java-j2seproject-copylibstask.jar.
I added to my project.properties the following entry:

libs.CopyLibs.classpath=tools/org-netbeans-modules-java-j2seproject-copylibstask.jar

After that all works fine with Debian, too.