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Uj Corb
Uj Corb

Reputation: 2159

running ant to install netbeans on mac : Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed

I am trying to install NetBeans.

As you can see if you click on the link, I had to install ant first. So I went there, downloaded the zip file an uncompressed it in /Users/myname/ and added this to my ./bash_profile: 

export ANT_HOME=/Users/⁨myname/ant
export PATH=$PATH:usr/local/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin

I couldn't make ant work so I finally ended up installing it using HomeBrew: brew install ant.

From there I had access to the ant command line.

Then I downloaded the binaries of NetBeans, uncompressed it in /Users/myname/ and cd into it to run ant as requested in the netbeans installation instructions.

But I get the following error: 

Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

How can I solve this error ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1872

Answers (1)

Joachim Rohde
Joachim Rohde

Reputation: 6045

You seem to mix things up. If you just want to use NetBeans you only need to download the binaries, extract the archive and start NetBeans via [netbeans]/bin/netbeans.sh

You need Ant only if you want to compile NetBeans from the sources. In this case make sure Ant is available in version >= 1.10 and you downloaded and extracted the source archive. The binaries archive is not needed.

Upvotes: 3

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