Ant missing

[antoniobrandao]

I followed the steps and got this error:

Error: Failed to run "ant -version", make sure you have ant installed and added to your PATH.
at /kamrik/build/platforms/android/cordova/lib/check_reqs.js:43:27

I noticed "ant" is a NPM module so I installed it: "sudo npm install -g ant", but I get this warning

pm WARN engine ant@0.2.0: wanted: {"node":"~0.8.0"} (current: {"node":"0.10.33","npm":"1.4.28"})

ant@0.2.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ant

So Ant doesn't get installed because my Node version is too high, therefore I keep getting the first error above.

Does your Template only work with {"node":"~0.8.0"} ?

[kamrik]

Hi Antonio,
The error is because cordova failed to find the Ant builder. Ant is not an npm package it's the Apache ant build system for java. You need to make sure you can run ant -version from the command line. Some version of Ant may be included with the Android SDK (not sure), but I use an independently installed version on my Mac.

This might be useful if you are on Mac as well.
http://superuser.com/questions/610157/how-do-i-install-ant-on-os-x-mavericks

On linux just do something like apt-get install ant