# Your previous /Users/adm/.bash_profile file was backed up as /Users/adm/.bash_profile.macports-saved_at_23:25:14 My /.bash_profile look like this after I added ANT_HOME and edited PATH: export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant In order to have Ant accessible from any folder we need to setup ANT_HOME variable and add bin folder to the PATH variable: macbook:Downloads adm$ vi ~/.bash_profile Note: As you can see sudo need to be used. Macbook:Downloads adm$ sudo mv apache-ant-1.9.6 /usr/local/ant Mv: rename apache-ant-1.9.6 to /usr/local/ant: Permission denied I will move Ant to /usr/local/ant using the mv command: macbook:Downloads adm$ mv apache-ant-1.9.6 /usr/local/ant Note: The output will be very long, so I removed it from here. Macbook:Downloads adm$ tar vxf apache-ant-1.9. To extract from the archive run the tar command as in the following example: macbook:Downloads adm$ pwd The file was downloaded in my Downloads folder. Installation Step1 - download the Apache Antįrom the download page, section Current Release of Ant, download the tar.gz version, currently version 1.9.6. If you have a similar output you need to install Apache Ant. In order to check this, from terminal run the following command: macbook:~ adm$ ant -v Some of the Mac OS versions already have pre-installed Apache Ant. Do not specify a target if you are using the default target.In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Apache Ant on Mac OS X. One or more names of the targets to run in the Ant script file. The content is written to theĪnt script file and then the file is run. These properties are passed to the Ant command processor and are available by name in the Ant script.Įnter each argument on a separate line in the following format: name= value.ĭefines the content of the Ant script. One or more JVM-specific arguments, such as -Xmx=512m for maximum memory. The path to the Java installation to run Ant scripts.

One or more Ant-specific arguments, such as using -v for verbose output. The default value is the ANT_HOME environment variable for the agent. The installation directory of Apache Ant. For example, -Xmx1024m or -XX:MaxPermSize=512m. One or more Ant-specific arguments, which are used in the ANT_OPTS environment variable. The following process steps are available in the Apache Ant plugin.

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