Gant by example

Question

I am trying to get a simple "Hello, Gant!" Gant build up and running. I just downloaded & extracted the 1.9.10-Groovy-2.0.0 version and am trying to create a build that defines a single greet task. When greet executes, it prints a "Hello, Gant!" message to STDOUT.

Specific questions:

• How do I "install" Gant? Do I need to define any env vars, like GANT_HOME, and then put %GANT_HOME%\bin on the system Path, etc.?
• What do I name my Gant buildscript? Anything I like, such as HelloGant.groovy?
• How do I run a greet task, defined in HelloGant.groovy, from the command-line?

Answer 1

re: install. Yes, the install is typical. Define GANT_HOME and place GANT_HOME/bin in PATH

The typical Gant build file is build.gant. Here is an example that is not the default:

$ cat HelloGant.groovy 

target ('greet' : 'greet') {
    println "hi there"
}

Here is an example execution:

$ gant -f HelloGant.groovy greet
greet:
hi there
------ greet

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1.52 seconds