How to set Ant properties based on variables in Eclipse?

Question

I have a common problem and there are probably countless ways to solve it. I\'m looking for an elegant, simple solution to this typical scenario:

I have a project in Ec

Answer 1

You can set eclipse relative properties for your ANT Build from eclipse

Go to your ANT Builder properties and in arguments section you can set properties using -D as below

-Dworkspace="${workspace_loc}" -Dproject_dir="${project_loc}"

(here workspace_loc and project_loc are eclipse variables). These properties can be accessed in your ANT build script like regular properties, for example: