Question

When I try to run “ant” in the CLI, I get the BUILD FAILED “Execute failed: java.in.IOException: Cannot run program “phploc”: CreateProcess error=2″ error (at the exec executable=”phploc” line).

My file structure:
— build/
— src/
— build.xml

Build.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project name="..." default="build">
 <target name="build"
   depends="prepare,phploc,pdepend,phpmd-ci,phpcs-ci,phpcpd,phpdox,phpunit,phpcb"/>

 <target name="build-parallel"
   depends="prepare,tools-parallel,phpunit,phpcb"/>

 <target name="tools-parallel" description="Run tools in parallel">
  <parallel threadCount="2">
   <sequential>
    <antcall target="pdepend"/>
    <antcall target="phpmd-ci"/>
   </sequential>
   <antcall target="phpcpd"/>
   <antcall target="phpcs-ci"/>
   <antcall target="phploc"/>
   <antcall target="phpdox"/>
  </parallel>
 </target>

 <target name="clean" description="Cleanup build artifacts">
  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/api"/>
  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/code-browser"/>
  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/coverage"/>
  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/logs"/>
  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/pdepend"/>
 </target>

 <target name="prepare" depends="clean" description="Prepare for build">
  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/api"/>
  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/code-browser"/>
  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/coverage"/>
  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/logs"/>
  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/pdepend"/>
  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/phpdox"/>
 </target>

 <target name="phploc" description="Measure project size using PHPLOC">
  <exec executable="phploc">
   <arg value="--log-csv" />
   <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/phploc.csv" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="pdepend" description="Calculate software metrics using PHP_Depend">
  <exec executable="pdepend">
   <arg value="--jdepend-xml=${basedir}/build/logs/jdepend.xml" />
   <arg value="--jdepend-chart=${basedir}/build/pdepend/dependencies.svg" />
   <arg value="--overview-pyramid=${basedir}/build/pdepend/overview-pyramid.svg" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/application" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="phpmd"
         description="Perform project mess detection using PHPMD and print human readable output. Intended for usage on the command line before committing.">
  <exec executable="phpmd">
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/application" />
   <arg value="text" />
   <arg value="${basedir}/build/phpmd.xml" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="phpmd-ci" description="Perform project mess detection using PHPMD creating a log file for the continuous integration server">
  <exec executable="phpmd">
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/application" />
   <arg value="xml" />
   <arg value="${basedir}/build/phpmd.xml" />
   <arg value="--reportfile" />
   <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/pmd.xml" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="phpcs"
         description="Find coding standard violations using PHP_CodeSniffer and print human readable output. Intended for usage on the command line before committing.">
  <exec executable="phpcs">
   <arg value="--standard=${basedir}/build/phpcs.xml" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/application" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="phpcs-ci" description="Find coding standard violations using PHP_CodeSniffer creating a log file for the continuous integration server">
  <exec executable="phpcs" output="/dev/null">
   <arg value="--report=checkstyle" />
   <arg value="--report-file=${basedir}/build/logs/checkstyle.xml" />
   <arg value="--standard=${basedir}/build/phpcs.xml" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/application" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="phpcpd" description="Find duplicate code using PHPCPD">
  <exec executable="phpcpd">
   <arg value="--log-pmd" />
   <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/pmd-cpd.xml" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/src/application" />
  </exec>
 </target>

 <target name="phpdox" description="Generate API documentation using phpDox">
  <exec executable="phpdox"/>
 </target>

 <target name="phpunit" description="Run unit tests with PHPUnit">
  <exec executable="phpunit" failonerror="true"/>
 </target>

 <target name="phpcb" description="Aggregate tool output with PHP_CodeBrowser">
  <exec executable="phpcb">
   <arg value="--log" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/build/logs" />
   <arg value="--source" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/src" />
   <arg value="--output" />
   <arg path="${basedir}/build/code-browser" />
  </exec>
 </target>
</project>

Could you provide me some suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Error 2 means “file not found”, which suggests the command you’re trying to run isn’t on your PATH. But note also that Ant’s exec task uses Java’s Runtime.exec under the covers, which on Windows can only run .exe commands, not .bat files. To run a batch file you need to use

<exec executable="cmd">
  <arg value="/c" />
  <arg file="C:/path/to/phploc.bat" />
  <arg value="--log-csv" />
  <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/phploc.csv" />
  <arg path="${basedir}/src/" />
</exec>