Environment Variables Needed by Ant

Steve Ochry wrote:

I need to define an environement variable within IDEA for the ANT build. This environment variable gives the location of a file that contains all of the property tags.

If I run from a batch file the command would be

SET MAXSYS_BUILD_PROPS = c:\Maxsys\build.properties
ant =f ...

Is there a way I can define MAXSYS_BUILD_PROPS for IDEA, specifically the ant build, without adding an environment variable to the system. I tried adding it via the Properties tab on the Build File Properties dialog but to no avail.

The Properties tab defines Ant properties: "-Dfoobar=blah". You could
try using that instead of an environment variable in your Ant script.
Theoretically, it's more portable. From the commandline, you would
invoke your ant script like so: ant -Dfoobar=blah -f ...

Ciao,
Gordon

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you can access environment variables in ant properties by prefixing env. (or whatever variable u use in ant build) to property name.

for example

env.MAXSYS_BUILD_PROPS

In this case, you should have following in your build.xml
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check the ant manual for more detail
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html