Re: how to set JAVA_HOME in antscript build.xml

Kenneth Burgener <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:19:11 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.anthill
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/2/2008 11:00 AM, Naina Dani wrote:
> Thanks for the help.
> The solution you have suggested seems good, but, I have two different 
> environments: Solaris and Windows. So, if I hardcode in the build.xml (  
> executable="${jdk1.4}/bin/javac">), windows will have a problem 
> compiling the code as it will not find the javac in the hardcoded 
> location. Does anybody has a workaround for this ?


Will you have two different projects in Anthill, one for Windows and one 
for Solaris?  If so you could just use a property for the whole 
executable parameter:

   executable="${JAVAC}"

and then pass in an overriding parameter from Anthill to have the JAVAC 
point to the appropriate executable.

Kenneth