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Ahmed Waheed
Ahmed Waheed

Reputation: 1291

Changing basedir in ant project

I'm having a list of projects each with ant build script, I need to write anther ant script that call all the other scripts (i.e: build all the projects from one build script), I thought of something like that:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project basedir="../path/of/the/destination/project" default="build" name="Main Builder">
    <target name="build">
        <ant antfile="first.xml"/>
        <ant antfile="second.xml"/>
        <!--And so on-->  
    </target>
</project>

The problem is that the basedir attribute has to be the one of the project to be built, and so needs to be changed each time before building the next project. How can I do so?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10252

Answers (2)

Ahmed Waheed
Ahmed Waheed

Reputation: 1291

Found that ant task takes an attribute dir that defines where to execute the ant script, so it'll be like that:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project basedir="../path/of/the/parent/directory" default="build" name="Main Builder">
    <target name="build">
        <ant antfile="buildScript1.xml" dir="project1"/>
        <ant antfile="buildScript2.xml" dir="project1"/>
        <ant antfile="buildScript3.xml" dir="project1"/>
        <!--And so on-->  
    </target>
</project>

Upvotes: 5

Ankur Lathi
Ankur Lathi

Reputation: 7836

You basedir should point to the directory which contain all projects and then give the relative path in antfile. Do it like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project basedir="../path/of/the/destination" default="build" name="Main Builder">
    <target name="build">
        <ant antfile="project1/buildScript.xml"/>
        <ant antfile="project2/buildScript.xml"/>
        <ant antfile="project3/buildScript.xml"/>
        <!--And so on-->  
    </target>
</project>

Upvotes: 0

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