After the installation of my ant in my windows 7 . In cmd i typed ant -v it's given the ant version but it says the following also.
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed
What's the problem in the system. How i can rectify this issue?
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You should use ant -version command instead.
The -v option is equivalent of -verbose option.
See Command-line Options Summary
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If I understand correctly, you assumed that -v is the "print version" command. Check the documentation, that is not the case -- instead ant -v is running ant build in verbose mode. So ant is trying to perform your build, based on the build.xml file, which is obviously not there.
To answer your question explicitly: there is probably nothing wrong with both the system nor ant installation.
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If you couldn't find the build.xml file in your project then you have to build it to be able to debug it and get your .apk
you can use this command-line to build:
android update project -p "project full path"
where "Project full path" -- Give your full path of your project location
after this you will find the build.xml then you can debug it.
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There may be two situations.
- No build.xml is present in the current directory
- Your ant configuration file has diffrent name.
Please see and confim the same.
In the case one you have to find where your build file is located and in the case 2, You will have to run command ant -f <your build file name>.
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