Building Unix code in windows - ant

Thanks to java portability. This helps to develop code in Windows system and deploy in UNIX system. But sometimes it brings some more steps to be included to ant build script. Most of the time need to run dos2unix and make it as executable (mode) at the time of deployment. This can be easily controlled by adding below steps in ant script.

Removing special codes from executable files, so that it will be compatible with UNIX system.

<fixcrlf eof="remove" eol="lf" includes="**/*.sh" srcdir="${src}">
Replaces EOLs with LF characters and removes eof characters from the shell scripts. Tabs and spaces are left as is.

Changing the file type as executable by setting mode=755 at the time of tar

<tarfileset dir="${src}" mode="755" prefix="/bin">
<include name="runScript.sh">
</tarfileset>

Sample ant build script:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="doscommands" default="test" basedir=".">
<target name="test" depends="">
<echo message="Fixing dos2unix"/>
<fixcrlf srcdir="." includes="**/*.sh" eol="lf" eof="remove" />
<echo message="Fixed dos2unix"/>
<echo message="Fixing chmod to 755"/>
<chmod dir="." perm="755" includes="**/*.*"/>
<echo message="Fixed chmod to 755"/>
</target>
</project>