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Environment Set Up

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool used for automating software build processes. To install Ant, follow these steps:

Download the latest version of Ant from the Apache Ant website (https://ant.apache.org/).
Extract the downloaded file to a directory on your computer.
Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to point to the directory where you extracted Ant.
Add the bin directory within the ANT_HOME directory to your system's PATH environment variable, so that you can run Ant from any directory on your computer.
Test your installation by running the "ant" command in a terminal window. If Ant is installed correctly, you should see the Ant version and a list of available targets.

In order to create Ant scripts we need Ant binary and Java to be set up.

Follow the instructions from the Java Environment Set Up to install JDK and set up the environment variables.

Installing Ant

Download the binary from the official website https://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html and unzip into a directory. I extracted it on C drive of my windows computer.

Now set the environment variable ANT_HOME to this directory

And add %ANT_HOME%\bin to the path

Now run the command ant -version from command line to confirm that the Ant has been set up. It should show the version number.

C:\Users\mail2>ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.12 compiled on October 13 2021

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