Error executing command ant on Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks when building for Android with PhoneGap Cordova

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Today I tried PhoneGap Cordova with Mac OS X Mavericks  Building for iOS went just fine  but building for Android wasn t without some guesswork   I installed Android 4 2 2 via the Android SDK Manager  I had to use the older API v17 since it wasn t compatible with a newer one   added the PATH environment variables for the SDK s platform-tools and tools and thought I was ready to take off by running the command    phonegap run android   Nevertheless  I got the following error    phonegap  detecting Android SDK environment     phonegap  using the local environment  phonegap  adding the Android platform     error  An error occured during creation of android sub-project  ERROR   executing command  ant   make sure you have ant installed and added to your path

User · Answer

You can install ANT through macports or homebrew.

But if you want to do without 3rd party package managers, the problem can simply be fixed by downloading the binary release from the apache ANT web site and adding the binary to your system PATH.

For example, on Mountain Lion, in ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc my path was setup like this:

export ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant"
export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin

So after uncompressing apache-ant-1.9.2-bin.tar.bz2 I moved the resulting directory to /usr/share/ and renamed it ant.

Simple as that, the issue is fixed.

Note Don't forget to sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/share/ant

User · Answer

it don t needed port and brew  because you have android sdk package    1 edit your  bash profile  export ANT HOME   your android sdk path eclipse plugins org apache ant 1 8 3 v201301120609        its only my org apache ant version  check your org apache ant version  export PATH  PATH  ANT HOME bin    2 make ant command that can executed  chmod 770  your ANT HOME bin ant     3 test if you see below message  that s success   command line execute  ant  Buildfile  build xml does not exist   Build failed

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In my case  I have macport installed already  I simply updated my macport   sudo port selfupdate  sudo port upgrade outdated   Then install apache-ant   sudo port install apache-ant   Finally  I add ant to my alias list in my  bash profile   alias ant   opt local bin ant    Then you are all set

User · Answer

I encountered the same issue when trying to use Cordova  Turns out I already had brew  try which brew  but it was outdated  So  I had to update it first    Update brew  brew update Install Apache Ant  brew install ant

User · Answer

For OSX your path needs to include  Users yourusername  their example    Development adt-bundle sdk platform-tools  needs to be      Users yourusername Development adt-bundle sdk platform-tools

User · Answer

The error message proved to be true as Apache Ant isn t in the path of Mac OS X Mavericks anymore   Bulletproof solution    Download and install Homebrew by executing following command in terminal      ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install    Install Apache Ant via Homebrew by executing      brew install ant    Run the PhoneGap build again and it should successfully compile and install your Android app

User · Answer

As an alternative to homebrew  you could download and install macports  Once you have macports  you can use    sudo port install apache-ant

[android] Error executing command 'ant' on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks when building for Android with PhoneGap/Cordova

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