ant is not recognized as an internal or external command

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I have the same issue as this user  ant - not recognized as an internal   however unfortunately none of the solutions have worked for me in that post or any other  I ve also looked at other commands not recognized and specifically adding a path variable  The procedure I am using is as follows   Extract to a desired installation directory  e g  C  apache-ant Create an ANT HOME environment variable   Open System Properties - gt  Advanced - gt  Environment Variables Create a new system variable     Variable name  ANT HOME     Variable value  C  apache-ant   Add  ANT HOME  bin directory to the PATH system variable  Open System Properties - gt  Advanced - gt  Environment Variables Under system variables  select PATH and append   ANT HOME  bin     e g   SystemRoot  system32  SystemRoot   JAVA HOME  bin  ANT HOME  bin  Verify that ANT is installed   Open a new command window and type  C   gt ant -v    In my case the Variable value is C  apache-ant apache-ant-1 8 2    My exact path variable is  SystemRoot  system32  SystemRoot   JAVA HOME  bin  SystemRoot  System32 Wbem  SYSTEMROOT  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0   JAVA HOME  bin  ANT HOME  bin which doesn t have any spaces between semicolons   However testing the ant installation does not work  the picture below is what I m experiencing      I have tried restarting on numerous occasions to no avail  I have run out of ideas  so if anyone has any any information would be helpful  Thanks   EDIT  Posted results of dir

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Please follow these steps

In User Variables

Set VARIABLE NAME=ANT_HOME VARIABLE PATH =C:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.9.7

2.Edit User Variable PATH = %ANT_HOME%\bin

Go to System Variables
- Set Path =%ANT_HOME%\bin

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Had the same problem  The solution is to add a   at the end of  ANT HOME  bin so it became  ANT HOME  bin   Worked for me   Should be system var

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Need to see whether you got ant folder moved by mistake or unknowingly  It is set in environment variables I resolved this once as mentioned below   I removed ant folder by mistake and placed in another folder I went to command prompt and typed  path   It has given me path as  F  apache-ant-1 9 4     So I moved the ant back to F drive and it resolved the issue

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even with the environment variables set  I found that ant -version does not work in scripts   Try call ant -version

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When Environment variables are changed log off and log in again so that it will be applied

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create a script including the following   replace the ant and jdk paths with whatever is correct for your machine   set  PATH  BASEPATH  set ANT HOME c  tools apache-ant-1 9-bin set JAVA HOME c  tools jdk7x64 set PATH  ANT HOME  bin  JAVA HOME  bin  PATH    run it in shell

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I downloaded ant  http   ant apache org bindownload cgi   unzipped to my C drive  and used the windows  doskey  command   doskey ant C  apache-ant-1 9 6 bin ant bat      this will work as long as you use the same command console  to make it permanent is more difficult  http   darkforge blogspot com 2010 08 permanent-windows-command-line-aliases html

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ANT HOME is not being resolved  Change  ANT HOME  bin in the Path system environment variable to c  apache-ant apache-ant-1 8 2 bin

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I had a similar issue  but the reason that  ANT HOME  wasn t resolving is that I had added it as a USER variable  not a SYSTEM one  Sorted now  thanks to this post

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