build - Installing Ant on Cygwin

Question

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to install Ant on Cygwin. I want to use Ant to build Nutch. I've looked through a bunch of tutorials but I can't find anything that is low level enough for me to understand. I need something like...

1. Download ant, put it here
2. Open Cygwin
3. type "export ANT_HOME=..."
4. ...

Can anyone help me out here?

Answer 1

Assuming you have a JDK already installed, you can do this:

$ export ANT_HOME=/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.7.1

which assumes you've unzipped Ant into C:apache-ant-1.7.1. Then:

$ export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008