Re: [Rails-devel] How do I get the source?

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:38 PM, John David Galt
<jd...@di...> wrote:
> On 2011-12-13 15:28, brett lentz wrote:
>> I believe all of the build functionality is contained in the Ant
>> build.xml, so you should be able to just run "ant build" to get the
>> source to build. I believe you can install Ant via Cygwin's installer,
>> too.
>>
>> For reference, Ant's docs are here: http://ant.apache.org/
>
> Cygwin doesn't have ant, and maybe doesn't support it.  I downloaded and unpacked
> the Ant distribution and set the PATH, but when I try to test the install by
> typing "ant" from the Cygwin shell, I get this:
>
>> $ ant
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ant/bin/ant: line 2: $'\r': command not found
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ant/bin/ant: line 17: $'\r': command not found
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ant/bin/ant: line 24: syntax error near unexpected token > `$'do\r''
>> 'cygdrive/c/Program Files/ant/bin/ant: line 24: `for arg in "$@" ; do
>>
>> Root@Mikey ~
>> $
>

Unfortunately, this is where we hit the limits on my knowledge of
Cygwin. It's been a few years since I regularly did much of anything
on a Windows machine. Does Google give you anything useful searching
on that error?

I believe Erik uses Windows, but I think he does everything through
Eclipse, which has plugins for Git and built-in support for doing Ant
builds from within the IDE.

---Brett.