Installing Ant on Windows

  1. Enter the URL: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
  2. On the Apache Ant Project page, find the heading Current Release of Ant.
  3. Select apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.zip [PGP] [SHA1] [MD5]
  4. Click Save to unzip the apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.zip [PGP] [SHA1] [MD5] file and save it to your C:\ directory as ant.
  5. Add the bin directory to your PATH environment variable.
  6. Add the ANT_HOME environment variable set to C:\ant.
  7. Add the ANT_OPTS environment variable set to -Xmx256M.