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

[Harald Maier]

Harald Maier <address@hidden> writes:

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

Uups, I read not carefully. I am using cygwin sh.exe and there it
works really well if ANT_HOME is set. I also have it set in my Unix
environments.

Harald