Installing Ant

Apache Ant is a build tool that is Java-based and uses Java classes. Ant configuration files are XML based. You can use them to build all output files such as HTML, PDF, and help systems.

  1. Enter the URL: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
  2. On the Apache Ant Project page, find the heading Current Release of Ant
  3. Select apache-ant-1.7-bin.zip [PGP] [SHA1] [MD5]
  4. Click Save to download the apache-ant-1.7-bin.zip [PGP] [SHA1] [MD5] file and unzip it to your C:\ directory as ant.
  5. Add the bin directory to your PATH environment variable.
  6. Add the ANT_HOME environment variable.