Can't run ant clean jar ide-dependencies command

Question

I'm trying to setup Freemarker, but in order to be able to use it, I installed Ant (bin) and Ivy.

If I type ant -version everything seems fine, but everytime I type any command that involves ant, it displays "Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed". I already copied the ivy jar file to the ant's lib folder. However, I'm still having the same problem.

Answer 1

You should execute ant using build.xml file,

If you aren't in its directory, you can specify path using -buildfile or -file or -f

-buildfile use given buildfile

-file ''

-f ''

For example:

 ant -f c:\temp\build.xml clean jar ide-dependencies

Answer 2

You have to issue that command from FreeMarker's directory (the extracted FreeMarker source release directory, or where you have checked FreeMarker out from Git), not from the Ant directory. build.xml is part of the FreeMarker source code.