Re: OT: Run Ant in MingW shell?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Kai.Grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Grossjohann) wrote in message 
news:<e808b168.0310090018.4caa0f5c@posting.google.com>...

> In that shell, I say "cd work/bla", then I say "ant -emacs compile",
> and this is the response:
> 
> ~/work/bla> ant -emacs compile
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/Main
> Exception in thread "main" ~/work/bla> 
> 
> I look at $CLASSPATH and it's the same as under CMD.EXE.  But there,
> Ant works.
> 
> Any idea how to get it working?

Silly me.  Typing "ant" will run the Bourne shell script.  I need to
say "ant.bat" to run the Windows thing.

Alas, typing "ant.bat -emacs compile" in the MinGW shell leads to the
shell trying to interpret ant.bat as a shell script.  That won't work,
of course.

~/work/evITA-Web> ant.bat -emacs compile
/c/Programme/Apache-Group/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin/ant.bat: @echo: command
not found
/c/Programme/Apache-Group/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin/ant.bat: line 3: syntax
error near unexpected token `(c'
/c/Programme/Apache-Group/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin/ant.bat: line 3: `REM  
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights'
~/work/evITA-Web> 

Hm.  Googling for "bat mingw shell"...  Ah!  Found an article on
Cygwin with the same problem.  Typing

cmd //c /c/Programme/Apache-Group/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin/ant.bat -emacs
compile

really works!

Now it would be nice if it could be made automatic.  I'll ask the
MinGW folks, I guess.

Kai