The following steps highlights the way to install Ant in your Windows 7
(1) Download Ant
http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/
I will be installing the Ant version 1.7.1
(2) unzip to your directory. I place it in my C. Thus, after unzip my directory becomes C:\apache-ant-1.7.1
(3) Set ANT_HOME as environment variable
(4) Set PATH
(5) To check, go to your command , type “ant -version”
If you encounter the following error :
ANT_HOME is set incorrectly or ant could not be located. Please set ANT_HOME
Please double check the unzip folder has all the files. Go back to step #2 above, if your lib folder is somehow missing, just redownload / re-extract the downloaded ant zip file.
