Build Ant Target

A Sublime Text 2 and 3 plugin that allows you to...

build any target from any valid Ant build file, regardless of its location in your project!

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Overview

A super simple plugin that extends Sublime Text's existing Ant build support, by adding more flexibility, allowing you to build from any open build file in your project, not just a build.xml in the root of your project.

It also allows you to select your desired target to build, for projects that have more than one target defined.

Requirements

• Make sure you have Ant installed on your machine.
  • https://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html
  • or via Homebrew
    • brew update
    • brew install ant
• Make sure that your Ant installation is linked to /usr/local/ant (*).
  • sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/ant /usr/local/ant
    • NOTE: This assumes your existing Ant install is located at /usr/local/bin/ant. You can figure out where you Ant is installed by running, which ant.
• That‘s it!

Installation

It is available through Sublime Package Contol and this is the recommended way of installation (brings configuration instructions, automatic updates with changelogs…).

Alternative installation methods

From github

You can install from github if you want, although Package Control automates just that. Go to your Packages subdirectory under Sublime Text's data directory:

Sublime Text 2

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2
• Linux: ~/.config/sublime-text-2
• Portable Installation: Sublime Text 2/Data

Sublime Text 3

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3
• Linux: ~/.config/sublime-text-3
• Portable Installation: Sublime Text 3/Data

Manually

Download the plugin as a zip. Copy the BuildAntTarget directory to its location (see prior section).

Usage

Build Target

There are two ways in which you can initiate the building of an Ant target, via the Keyboard Shortcut or Context Menu.

NOTE: Both of these methods require that you initiate the command from an opened, and valid, Ant build file.

Keyboard Shortcut

• Use the keyboard shortcut, command+alt+b, on any opened Ant build file
• Select target via the popup menu
• Watch your build happen via the Build Results panel

Context Menu

• Right-click on the opened build file
• Navigate to Build Ant Target > Build Target
• Select target via the popup menu
• Watch your build happen via the Build Results panel

Options

Coming soon...

Footnotes

• • This is the default location that the Sublime Text ANT build system uses. I was able to find this out thanks to this link Sublime Text with SuperAnt path is not correct