Question

I’m having a problem getting the javac used by Ant to find and use certain packages. When I invoke javac directly from the command line the packages are found and used.

The .jar files are located in my home directory under lib/java. This is my classpath:
/home/bliskovs/lib/java/*:/home/bliskovs/vendor/cytoscape-v2.7.0/cytoscape.jar

This is the relevant section in my build.xml:

  <target name="compile">
    <javac srcdir="." debug="true"/>
    <javac srcdir="tools/" debug="true"/>
    <javac srcdir="core/" debug="true"/>
  </target>

How can I get Ant to recognize these packages?

Answer 1

Check out this.

<property name="build.classes.dir" location="build/classes"/>

<path id="compile.classpath">
     <fileset dir="lib"/>
     <pathelement location="/home/bliskovs/vendor/cytoscape-v2.7.0"/>
</path>

<target name="compile" description="Compile src dir">
  <javac destdir="${build.classes.dir}" debug="true" includeantruntime="true">
    <src location="src"/>
    <classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
  </javac>
</target>