Ant not obeying JAVA_HOME?

[Emmanouil Batsis <Em...@eurodyn.com>]

Dear tribe,

When running Ant through ant-launcher.jar like:

java -jar ant-launcher.jar -buildfile /path/to/build.xml

I get the following:

Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program 
Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_04\lib\tools.jar

However, the above path points to my JRE, while my JAVA_HOME env 
property points to the JDK. From what i remember my linux box 
demonstrated the same behaviour using a SUN JDK. What am i missing?

Cheers,

Manos




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Re: Ant not obeying JAVA_HOME?

[Emmanouil Batsis <Em...@eurodyn.com>]

Conor MacNeill wrote:

> 1. Just use the java command from the JDK area directly [...]


I think i'll try to follow this option

> Of course, a lot of this stuff is what ant.bat is all about.


Right, but I'm trying to avoid using platform dependent scripts and mess 
with with the users environment; i'm actually working from within an 
installer and trying to be as java-based as possible; thus far 
everything works fine on unix and windows :-)

Thanks,

Manos

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Re: Ant not obeying JAVA_HOME?

[Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>]

Emmanouil Batsis wrote:
> 
> Dear tribe,
> 
> When running Ant through ant-launcher.jar like:
> 
> java -jar ant-launcher.jar -buildfile /path/to/build.xml
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program 
> Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_04\lib\tools.jar
> 
> However, the above path points to my JRE, while my JAVA_HOME env 
> property points to the JDK. From what i remember my linux box 
> demonstrated the same behaviour using a SUN JDK. What am i missing?
> 

The Ant launcher code does not process environment variables since java 
does not provide access to these. You have two choices

1. Just use the java command from the JDK area directly and not rely on 
the OS path to find it. (especially since java.exe on Windows systems 
can often exist in Winnt\system32, etc). So,

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -jar ant-launcher.jar -buildfile /path/to/build.xml

2. Pass tools.jar in the classpath

java -cp %JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;ant-launcher.jar 
org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher -buildfile /path/to/build.xml

Because you're using the -cp option, I don't think you can use the -jar 
option too, IIRC.

Of course, a lot of this stuff is what ant.bat is all about. It does 
what it does to ensure it can run Ant no matter how the user's system is 
setup :)

Conor

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