Passing parameter properly in an Ant task

Question

I have an Ant build file named 'prepare.all.xml' which has the following line:

<import file="${build.config.dir}/prepare.tools.config.xml" description="Standard tool configurations"/>

I am trying to run this build file and the command that I gave is -

ant -buildfile=prepare.all.xml

This threw me an error and the error is:

C:\CIA-TestFramework\build-config\prepare.all.xml:6: Cannot find C:\CIA-TestFramework\buildconfig\${build.config.dir}\prepare.tools.config.xml imported from C:\CIA-TestFramework\build-config\prepare.all.xml

Now the file 'prepare.tools.config.xml' is located in the directory- C:\\CIA-TestFramework\\build-config\\

What should be the command to make this run properly?

Answer 1

The property build.config.dir is not set.
If you want to set it in commandline use :

ant -buildfile=prepare.all.xml -Dbuild.config.dir=whatever

see Ant manual Running Apache Ant for details