Prob with ANT_HOME or PATH

[Alana Sparx]

Hi

I've just downloaded and installed Ant on my desktop.

I've followed the uninstallation instructions, but the paths look a tad odd. Ant has unzipped itself into a directory structure like
C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5
with the \lib and \bin directories coming off this.

ANT_HOME is thus set to
C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5

To include Ant on my path, the PATH variable needs updated accordingly. If I set it explicity ie
C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin
I can run 'Ant' from the command line anywhere, everything works swimmingly.

If, however, I set it as per
[B]%ANT_HOME%\bin[B]
I keep getting the 'Ant' is not recognised blahblahblah routine.

Any ideas why this should be so? I'm setting these variables via Control Panel on XP.

Many thanks
As

[David O'Meara]

you have user and system variables, and the two aren't interchangeable ie if you set one you can't necessarily use it in the other. The second is that sometimes it needs a system restart to be available elsewhere.

Dave

[Tim Holloway]

Also, if you set and environment variable from the Windows control panel, it's effective when you open new command windows, but it won't update command windows that are already open.