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Gant by example

I am trying to get a simple "Hello, Gant!" Gant build up and running. I just downloaded & extracted the 1.9.10-Groovy-2.0.0 version and am trying to create a build that defines a single greet task. When greet executes, it prints a "Hello, Gant!" message to STDOUT.

Specific questions:

  • How do I "install" Gant? Do I need to define any env vars, like GANT_HOME, and then put %GANT_HOME%\bin on the system Path, etc.?
  • What do I name my Gant buildscript? Anything I like, such as HelloGant.groovy?
  • How do I run a greet task, defined in HelloGant.groovy, from the command-line?
Solution

  • re: install. Yes, the install is typical. Define GANT_HOME and place GANT_HOME/bin in PATH

    The typical Gant build file is build.gant. Here is an example that is not the default:

    $ cat HelloGant.groovy 

target ('greet' : 'greet') {
    println "hi there"
}

    Here is an example execution:

    $ gant -f HelloGant.groovy greet
greet:
hi there
------ greet

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1.52 seconds