I'm not sure that directly answer your question, but in the trunk of antunit, there is a tool to plug antunit script into the eclipse (or any other IDE) Junit runner. That way, you can use your favorite java debugger to debug antunit script.
But still, your project need to have all the ant dependencies configured. Gilles Scokart On 16 May 2010 00:46, James Chy <jim...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > I have had a hard time finding information on running ant locally in > Eclipse > so I can use the debugger to debug core ant code. > > Do the developers on the project typically use Eclipse for development? > > If so, what class path works in Eclipse to do this? > > Is there a set of commands to get all the dependent jars? > > Can I debug org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher directly? > > If so, where should the build.xml be that it runs? > > Below are the steps I have completed get this going. > > I have checked out. > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk from subversion to a > directory called ant-core. > I got up to revision 944382 which is 1.8.2alpha. > > I created a new Java Project against this code. > The default output folder is ant-core/bin. > > The default Libraries are ant-antunit-1.1.jar, junit-3.8.2.jar and the JRE > (I'm currently using jdk1.6.0_14) > > Eclipse detects the default source directories as the following: > ant-core/src > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/core/containerssrc > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/core/loaderref/src > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/apt > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/expected > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/input > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/manifestclasspath > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/depend/src1 > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/depend/src2 > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/depend/src3 > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/depend/src4 > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/depend/src5 > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/javah/input > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/rmic/src > ant-core/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/types/assertions > ant-core/src/main > ant-core/src/etc/tests/antunit/core/location/src > ant-core/src/etc/tests/antunit/taskdefs/javac-dir/bad-src > ant-core/src/etc/tests/antunit/taskdefs/javac-dir/good-src > ant-core/src/etc/tests/antunit/taskdefs/optional/junit/src > ant-core/src/test/junit > > This results in approximately 862 errors. > I was able to build.bat and it built the project into dist. > > But, I would like to be able to use Eclipse's debugger. > > The main launch point appears to be org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher. > > I can right-click on this file and select Debug Java application and hit > breakpoints I set, but I would need a clean build to do this. >
