Error installing Ant: ANT_HOME is set incorrectly

Solution 1:

It sounds like you have it setup right. What happens if you try something like this, which worked for me:

C:\>set ANT_HOME=C:\apache-ant-1.8.1

C:\>set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.6.0_24

C:\>set PATH=%ANT_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

C:\>ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.8.1 compiled on April 30 2010

This also worked for me by setting up environment variables, like so:

Solution 2:

I had the exact same problem and came across your post.

I figured out my problem was that somehow I did not have a lib directory in my ANT_HOME folder. It looks like the script looks specifically for ant.jar. I unzipped the apache ant zip again and everything worked great.

The error message:

ANT_HOME is set incorrectly or ant could not be located. Please set ANT_HOME.

for not having an ANT_HOME/lib directory was definitely misleading.

Solution 3:

I was facing the same issue. But the problem was that I had added ANT_HOME to user variables in Windows.

I removed it and added ANT_HOME to system variables. It works fine now.

Solution 4:

My problem has solved in windows xp, Steps are here (this is my setting change as per your installation):

1. Set ANT_HOME to E:\Software\apache-ant-1.8.4
2. add in Path %ANT_HOME%\bin;
3. open command prompt and run command ant (you will see out put from ant)

Solution 5:

Try setting your ANT_HOME like below.it worked for me

ANT_HOME-----C:\apache-ant-1.8.4-bin\apache-ant-1.8.4