Let's create the beginnings of our build.xml file. Let's put it in the [root]/ directory, so that it's easily accessible.

Typedef Antlion

The first order of business is to add Antlion to our build file, and some properties to define where everything lives. Here's our start to the build.xml file: <project name="SimpleProject" default="main"> <property name="lib.dir" location="lib" /> <property name="dist.dir" location="dist" /> <property name="work.dir" location="work" /> <property name="classes.dir" location="${work.dir}/classes" /> <typedef resource="net/sf/antlion/antlib.xml"> <classpath><pathelement location="${lib.dir}/antlion/0.9.0/antlion-inline-0.9.0.jar" /> </classpath></typedef> </project>