## hsqldb v.1.61 Build-with-ANT Documentation

### Building with ANT, from the Apache Jakarta Project

ANT (Another Neat Tool), from the Jakarta project, receives full build support for the first time in this release of hsqldb. Thanks go out to the Apache/Jakarta and ANT teams for giving the world such a wonderful tool. Additional links to ANT info can be found on the Links Page.

### Obtaining ANT

Ant is a part of the Jakarta/Apache Project.

- Go to the Jakarta site for ANT
  This is the index page for the ANT sub-project..

- Go to the Installing ANT page and follow the dirctions for your platform

### Building with ANT

In /src there is an Ant build.xml that builds the hsqldb.jar. (Ant must be
already installed). To use it, change to /src then type:

ant

This displays the command line options which include

ant jar to make the hsqldb.jar
ant clean to clean up the /classes directory that is created type:
ant cleanall to remove the old jar as well
ant switchtojdk11 to process and change the code for jdk1.1.x
ant switchtojdk12 to process and change the code for jdk1.2.x and 1.3.x

Thanks to Fred Toussi for the final version of this instruction. A more sophisticated build process, using ANT is under development for v.1.7.