Integrating ant and Installanywhere

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Roedy Green - 23 Jul 2004 23:08 GMT

I am trying to invoke installAnywhere from ant.

I get this error message

W:\source\com\immuexa\tidepool\build2.xml:87: taskdef A class needed
by class com.zerog.ia.integration.ant.InstallAnywhereAntTask cannot be
found: org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask

ExecTask is part of ant. What can't it find its own class files?

<taskdef name="buildinstaller"
classname="com.zerog.ia.integration.ant.InstallAnywhereAntTask"/>

<target name="ia" depends="build">
<buildinstaller
IAlocation="e:\program files\installanywhere 6 standard"

IAProjectFile="w:\deploy\immuexa\tidepool\tidepool\tidepool.iap_xml"
/>

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Roedy Green - 24 Jul 2004 00:07 GMT

>ExecTask is part of ant. What can't it find its own class files?

I was able to fix the problem by copying all the ant/lib/*.jar files
to the ext directory, but the docs say this should not be necessary.

However, now ANT can't find the javac main class.

Arggh.

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Roedy Green - 24 Jul 2004 01:51 GMT

>However, now ANT can't find the javac main class.

using the -v option I discovered

"Detected Java version: 1.4 in: E:\j2sdk1.4.2_05\jre"

I would have expected it to use E:\j2sdk1.4.2_05\bin\java.exe
so that it could find the com.sun.tools.javac.Main
class more easily.

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Roedy Green - 24 Jul 2004 02:27 GMT

>W:\source\com\immuexa\tidepool\build2.xml:87: taskdef A class needed
>by class com.zerog.ia.integration.ant.InstallAnywhereAntTask cannot be
>found: org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask

Turns out the InstallAnywhere docs are wrong. They say in one place to
put iaant.jar on the classpath and in another in ANT_HOME/lib/ext.

Both are wrong. You supposed to put it in ANT_HOME/lib.

The error message is misleading. I suspect the class it is having
trouble finding is com.zerog.ia.integration.ant.InstallAnywhereAntTask
not org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask

InstallAnywhere is a piece of CRAP. Have a look at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installanwhere.html for why I say this.

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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
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P.Hill - 24 Jul 2004 17:18 GMT

> InstallAnywhere is a piece of CRAP. Have a look at
> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installanwhere.html for why I say this.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installanywhere.html

Note the extra "y".

-Paul

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