Re: [h-e-w] MinGW shell under Emacs and then running Ant

[Harald Maier]

Kai Grossjohann <address@hidden> writes:

> When I try to run Ant under the MinGW sh.exe, then I get an error
> that the class definition couldn't be found.  (I don't remember
> which class definition, the problem happens @work but I read news
> @home.)
>
> "echo $CLASSPATH" shows c:/foo;d:/bar style entries.  I tried to
> change it to c:\foo;d:\bar and also c:\\foo;d:\\bar, to no avail.
> Same problem.  (I didn't try /c/foo:/d/bar, though.)
>
> (Ant is not a MinGW program, I just use the Windows stuff that comes
> with Ant.)

Try to set ANT_HOME. This works for me. Also try to start the ant.bat
file with 'cmd /c ant.bat'. Without ANT_HOME I get the following error

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| Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
|   org/apache/tools/ant/Main
`----

Harald