Because we’re talking about Windows, choose to download the ZIP file rather than any of the others. Go to the Ant homepage and click to download the binary. The first step, as with most software, is to download Ant. It’s better to install the JDK instead of just the JRE because some Ant tasks require the JDK.

If not, go download it from Sun 2 and install it. Prerequisitesīefore beginning, make sure you have the latest JDK installed. So this post is primarily for myself, so that I don’t need to search too far. Every time I have to install Ant on another Windows machine I end up searching the web yet again for a good set of instructions.

Unfortunately, it’s a bit of a beast to install on Windows. What’s more, it comes installed on Macs and is an easy install on Linux as a package. Yes, I know there are a lot of shiny new tools written in Node.js or something else, but I’ve used Ant for a long time and have found it easy to teach others. Apache Ant 1 is still my favorite tool for creating build systems for my code.

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