Additionally Vista "hides" the "Program Files" directory. It can be that it is available under names.
E.g. in Germany the Explorer shows "Programme" while the cmd.exe shows "Program Files" - very obscure ...

Personally I have installed my different Ant versions into c:\ant\<version> and my JDKs into c:\jdk\<version>.
c:\ant\165       Ant 1.6.5 for checks
c:\ant\170       Ant 1.7.0 current version
c:\ant\18.1       my own build of SVN TRUNK
c:\ant\setant.bat   Batchfile for switching between Ant versions (changes PATH+ANT_HOME)
c:\jdk\130       Ant Core must be 1.3 compliant, so I need a version for test this
c:\jdk\150_12     Our company standard: Java 1.5
c:\jdk\160_02     Newest major release (I could update to 160_03 ...)
c:\jdk\docs-170_b17 Docs shouldnt change so much and be bwc ("@(protected)")
c:\jdk\setjava.bat  Changing JDK version


Jan

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart@(protected)]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 16:41
> An: Ant Users List
> Betreff: Re: ant setup
>
> There may be a further problem: Windows doesn't like path names
> greater than 155 characters. I"ve found that installing JDKs and other
> Java components under C:\Program and Files can cause you to go over
> this limit. That plus the space issue can cause all sorts of issues.
>
> The best way to handle this is to work with projects on the root of
> the drive and to install JDKs on the root of the drive.
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 10:21 AM, Bizard Nicolas (KIRO 41)
> <nicolas.bizard@(protected):
> > Hi,
> > there have been some known bugs in the past with Ant and
> Java for paths
> > including "spaces".
> > I'd give it a try with Java and Ant installed directly on C:
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Calvin [mailto:chrisnymets@(protected)]
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:04 PM
> > To: user@(protected)
> > Subject: ant setup
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm using Vista with cygwin and ant 1.7.. When I create a
> build.xml and
> > run ant, I get this:
> >
> > cygpath: can't convert empty path
> > Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program
> > Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib\tools.jar
> >
> > While I have a C:\P F\Java\jre1.6.0_03, I also have "C:\Program
> > Files\Java\JavaEE 5 SDK".. Here is my environment:
> >
> > $ echo $CLASSPATH
> > /cygdrive/C/Program\ Files/Apache\ Software\ Foundation/Apache\ Ant\
> > 1.7.0/lib:/cygdrive/C/Program\ Files/Apache\ Software\
> > Foundation/Tomcat\ 6.0/lib:/cygdrive/C/Program\
> Files/Java/JavaEE\ 5\
> > SDK/jdk/lib
> >
> > $ echo $JAVA_HOME
> > /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/JavaEE\ 5\ SDK/jdk
> >
> > $ echo $ANT_HOME
> > /cygdrive/C/Prorgram\ Files/Apache\ Software\
> Foundation/Apache\ Ant\
> > 1.7.0/bin
> >
> > Can anyone please help? I'd like to get up and running and am,
> > unfortunately, having difficulty.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Chris
> >
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