I have been using Apache’s Ant in place of Phing to run build tasks for a while, mainly due to the fact that there are many more tasks available and also that Ant is based on Java, something I am taking an interest in at the moment.
One of the more interesting aspects of moving to Ant is the somewhat patchy documentation on the installation of SVNAnt – an Ant task that provides an interface to Subversion. To serve as a bit of a recipe, I will set out the steps required to get SVNAnt working…
If you are using Linux (like I am) or MacOS, you’ll more than likely need the JavaHL which is a Java Native Interface to subversion. There’s some info here on how to get it for your OS; if you are lucky you may be able to get it through package management depending on your flavour of Linux. With Fedora 8 I just ran this:
$ yum install subversion-javahl
Nice and easy for once! Anyway, onward with the instructions…
Firstly, check out the latest source code for SVNAnt from tigris.org – you may be prompted for a user name (use ‘guest’) followed by a password (use ‘none’). Then move into the ’svnant’ directory.
$ sudo svn co http://subclipse.tigris.org/svn/subclipse/trunk/svnant/ svnant $ cd svnant
Next, edit the build.properties.example file – remove all the ‘#s’ to uncomment the code, and add the following line at the bottom:
targetJvm = 1.6
The targetJvm obviously depends on which version JVM you happen to be using.
Next, run the installer to build the required files.
$ ant makeDistrib
This should create all the library files you need in order to get up and running with SVNAnt. The library files are located in a zip file (in my case svnant-1.1.0.zip in the build/ directory. If you unzip the file, you’ll find a small collection of ready to go samples to have a play with.
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