Re: Apple Silicon M1 Compatible Build of ANT

Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:14:40 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.user
Message-ID <CAFCRh--bsqickBKg7E2B4YrfhY1nTVai_sAaGHWW45-s_haw2Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:23 PM David Garratt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I will soon be getting a M1 based Apple Mac and I am looking for
> compatible builds of my most frequently used tools including ANT.

At the moment I’ve not been able to find anything which looks like it’s
> built for an arm CPU. Could anyone point me in the right direction please.


Well, ANT is Java-based, i.e. compiled to byte-code, interpreted (and/or
JIT-compiled) to the local native platform by the JRE/JDK.
So it's not an M1-compatible ANT distrib you need, it's an M1-JDK (or JRE,
depending on what you use ANT for) that you need. --DD