How to Apache Ant on Mac OS X

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Ant on Mac OSX.

Tools :

1. Apache Ant 1.9.4
2. Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10

$ ant -v

1. Get Apache Ant

Visit Apache Ant website, and get the .tar.gz file.

2. Extracts It

Copy the downloaded gz file to your favorite location, extracts it.

$ cp ~/Downloads/apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.gz .
$ cd ~
$ pwd
/Users/mkyong
$ tar vxf apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.gz
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/ant
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/antRun
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/antRun.pl
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/complete-ant-cmd.pl
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/runant.pl
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/runant.py
x apache-ant-1.9.4/
x apache-ant-1.9.4/bin/
......
$ cd ~/apache-ant-1.9.4/bin
$ pwd
/Users/mkyong/apache-ant-1.9.4/bin
$ ant -v
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014
Trying the default build file: build.xml
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

P.S The Apache Ant commands are available at folder $APACHE_ANT_FOLDER/bin.

3. Environment Variable

Set the command ant as the environment variable, so that you can “ant” build your project everywhere.

$ vim ~/.bash_profile

Exports $ANT_HOME/bin, save and restart terminal.

export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
export GRADLE_HOME=/Users/mkyong/gradle
export M2_HOME=/Users/mkyong/apache-maven-3.1.1
# Apache Ant
export ANT_HOME=/Users/mkyong/apache-ant-1.9.4
# Export to PATH
export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin:$M2_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin

Test it again, now, you can access the ant command everywhere.

$ cd ~
$ pwd
/Users/mkyong
$ ant -v
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014
Trying the default build file: build.xml
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

Done.

References

1. Apache Ant download page
2. How to install Apache Maven on Mac OSX
3. Linux : gzip a folder