setting up environment variables in windows 7 for java and ant

Question

I have a book that says to do the following.

1. Add a JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME environment variable. - check
2. Add $JAVA_HOME/bin and $ANT_HOME/bin to my path va

Answer 1

Right click on My computer and select properties.

Click on Advance system settings.

Visit http://codebrizz.blogspot.com.ng/2016/07/installation-and-configuration.html for full configuration guide with images for each step

Answer 2

$ANT_HOME doesn't mean $ANT_HOME, literally. $ANT_HOME means "the value of ANT_HOME".

If Ant is installed at c:\ant, your environment variables should be:

• ANT_HOME=c:\ant
• PATH = ...;c:\ant\bin;...

Same for JAVA_HOME.

Answer 3

you can try the following:

SET ANT_HOME=my_path_to_ant_folder
SET JAVA_HOME=my_path_to_jdk_folder
SET PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%/bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;

Answer 4

1. right click My Computer
2. click Properties
3. go to Advanced system settings
4. click on Advanced tab
5. click on Environment Variables
6. click on New...

Now you can define an environment variable, type JAVA_HOME in Variable name and in Variable value the path to you JAVA_HOME, the same thing goes for ANT_HOME.