You can build Antlion yourself by checking out the all module from CVS (which is an alias for all the active projects). As this downloads the 3rd party libraries, this may take some time.

You will need JDK 1.2 or better installed on your machine.

To prepare your shell environment for building Antlion, you'll need to run some setup scripts in the shell. For Windows, you will execute the following commands to build (the > symbol marks the command prompt):

	> set JAVA_HOME=[your jdk] > cd [antlion-home]\BUILD > setenv.bat

while Un*x users will type ($ marks the command prompt):

	$ export JAVA_HOME=[your jdk] $ cd [antlion-home]/BUILD $ . setenv.sh

Alternatively, you may add this into your shell startup scripts if you plan on building Antlion often.

To build a particular project within Antlion, simply execute ant with the properly setup shell; the environment scripts above will put the right version of Ant onto the Path. To build the entire project, run ant from the [antlion-home] directory.

For the full build, you will need to pass to Antlion the location of different JDK version installations, for compatibility tests. You may either pass these as -D arguments to Ant, or store them in a local.properties, located in the base Antlion directory. Here's an example of this file's contents for Windows:

config.jvm.1.2=C:\\java\\jdk1.2.2_015
config.jvm.1.3=C:\\java\\jdk1.3.1_07
config.jvm.1.4=C:\\java\\j2sdk1.4.2_10
config.jvm.1.5=C:\\java\\jdk1.5.0_03

At this time, only the config.jvm.1.2 setting is needed. If you wish to run the full build but do not have a 1.2 JVM for your system, then this can be replaced with a different version of the JVM, under the knowledge that the tests will not be running in the correct environment.