‘ant’ is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

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\

Answer 1

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.