‘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

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