ANT_HOME is set incorrectly or ant could not be located [duplicate]

Answer 1

Actually ANT_HOME should NOT be set where ant.bat is located.

It should be set to the ant.bat parent directory.

E.g.

C:\apache-ant-1.8.1 <-- ANT_HOME
  |
  bin <-- this is where ant.bat lives.

As duffymo correctly pointed out the ANT_HOME/bin still must be on your PATH.

Answer 2

ANT_HOME should be set to the directory where ant is installed. e.g.

If your ant installation is located at: C:\tools\apache-ant

Your ANT_HOME should be set: set ANT_HOME=C:\tools\apache-ant at the System Environment settings and not User Environment Settings

Answer 3

Just sharing my experience, using cd %ANT_HOME% can point out errors in setting the variable correctly.

1. ANT_HOME should point to the parent directory, not the bin.
2. Path should include %ANT_HOME%\bin
3. The ant.bat file under bin is editable, it can be altered to print the current value for ANT_HOME for troubleshooting.
4. A system reboot is probably required for the system variables to get updated.

Answer 4

I've had the same problem, and this is how I resolved it:

Open your ANT directory and check that all the ANT files exist (like directories for bin,lib,etc...) I found my ANT directory was abnormal, just bin was there, the others like lib were missing. (I'm not sure what caused this)

If you have missing files/directories, unzip the apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.zip again, and make sure all the files exist.

Answer 5

I had the same problem and none of these solutions worked, so i simply deleted my ANT_HOME from enviroment variables, restarted my PC and I was all set to go

Answer 6

Check your existing PATH that may already included. Ant will not work if path is duplicated.