SYNOPSIS
ant [OPTIONS] [TARGET [TARGET2 [TARGET3] ...]]
DESCRIPTION
Like make ant is a tool by which projects can be build. But unlike it, ant is based on Java which means it will run on every platform for which a Java Virtual Machine is available. This makes it a great tool for building Java software.
By default it takes information from build.xml which describes the targets.
- -help, -h
- print help on the command line options
- -projecthelp, -p
- print project help information
- -version
- print the version information
- -diagnostics
- print information that might be helpful to diagnose or report problems
- -quiet, -q
- be extra quiet
- -silent, -S
- print nothing but task outputs and build failures
- -verbose, -v
- be extra verbose
- -debug, -d
- print debugging information
- -emacs, -e
- produce logging information without adornments
- -lib <path>
- specifies a path to search for jars and classes
- -logfile <file>
- use the given file to output log to
- -logger <classname>
- use the given class to perform logging
- -listener <classname>
- add an instance of the given class as a project listener
- -noinput
- do not allow interactive input
- -buildfile, -file, -f <file>
- use the given buildfile instead of the default build.xml file. This is the ant equivalent of Makefile
- -D<property>=<value>
- use value for the given property
- -keep-going, -k
- execute all targets that do not depend on failed target(s)
- -propertyfile <name>
- load all properties from file with -D properties taking precedence
- -inputhandler <class>
- the class which will handle input requests
- -find, -s <file>
- search for buildfile towards the root of the filesystem and use it
- -nice <number>
- A niceness value for the main thread: 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest); 5 is the default
- -nouserlib
- Run ant without using the jar files from ${user.home}/.ant/lib
- -noclasspath
- Run ant without using CLASSPATH
- -autoproxy
- Java 5 or later : use the OS proxy settings
- -main <class>
-
Override Ant's normal entry point