ant not found issue while adding android platform in window7

Question

Whenever I am trying to run the following command I am gettign the ant not installed error.

C:\MyApp\Android\MySpe\Audio>cordova platform add android
Creating android project...

C:\Users\atulc\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\node_modules\q\q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error: ERROR : executing command 'ant', make sure you have ant installed and add
ed to your path.
    at C:\Users\atulc\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\lib\check_reqs.js:4
7:27
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:641:7)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:956:11)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Pipe.close (net.js:465:12)
Error: C:\Users\atulc\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\create.bat: Command
 failed with exit code 8
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\Users\atulc\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\co
rdova\src\superspawn.js:126:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)

I have also updated my Environment variable accrodingly but still getting the above mentioned error:-

ANT_HOME : C:\ant JAVA_HOME:C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21\ and path variable as well..

Any help is really appreciated..

Answer 1

You need to update your PATH environment variable. If you already created the ANT_HOME environment variable, add this to your PATH:

PATH = "(current_path);%ANT_HOME%\bin"