Question

I have the following snippet in my Ant script. It executes just fine:

<exec executable="C:\test\foo\programName.exe" />

But then when I try to execute it by setting the directory, like so:

<exec executable="programName.exe"
  dir="C:\test\foo\" />

I get:

Execute failed: java.io.IOException:
Cannot run program “programName.exe”
(in directory “C:\test\foo”):
CreateProcess error=2, The system
cannot find the file specified

Please help! Why is it not working when the directory is specified separately?

Answer 1

I ended up sticking with this:

<exec executable="${basedir}\myexefile.exe}" />