Set environment variables for ant script

Question

Does anyone know how to set additional environment variables for ant script from inside intellij-idea / rubimine? The part of the ant script that uses the environment variable is as follows:

<property environment="env"/> <fail unless="env.IDEA_HOME" message="IDEA_HOME must be set."/> 

What I have tried so far:

• Passing environment variable at startup for intellij
• Settings → Path Variables
• Ant Build → Properties
• Ant String -> Run -> ant command line

Answer 1

You can set variables as additional command line parameters. Here is a screenshot.

And then my conclusion:

 echoproperties #Ant properties #Sun Mar 04 04:48:30 EST 2012 \==-buildfile ant.core.lib=E\:\\IntelliJ IDEA 114.145\\lib\\ant\\lib\\ant.jar ant.file=E\:\\IdeaProjects\\psiviewer\\build.xml ant.file.psiviewer=E\:\\IdeaProjects\\psiviewer\\build.xml ant.file.type=file ant.file.type.psiviewer=file ant.home=E\:\\IntelliJ IDEA 114.145\\lib\\ant ant.java.version=1.6 ant.library.dir=E\:\\IntelliJ IDEA 114.145\\lib\\ant\\lib ant.project.default-target=all ant.project.name=psiviewer ant.version=Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010 awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit basedir=E\:\\IdeaProjects\\psiviewer dir.idea=e\:/idea11 file.encoding=windows-1252 file.encoding.pkg=sun.io 

You see that dir.idea set to what we passed to ant.

Answer 2

Problem: run ant build inside IntelliJ, let the ant build property be used to use the values ​​of the IntelliJ Path variables

Decision:

• Added path variable QC1_SHELL_DEPLOY for intelliJ IntelliJ parameters → Path variables

• In the Ant Build window (views → Windows Tool → ant Build), right-click on the ant script (assuming you have one), click properties . create a property for ant script qc_deploy_dir . property for ant script with arbitrary value

• Open ant.xml in the .idea / ant.xml project, change the line defining qc_deploy_dir to use the IntelliJ Path Variable $ QC1_SHELL_DEPLOY

• Return to the properties window for the ant script, now qc_deploy_dir is gaining the value QC1_SHELL_DEPLOY .