Adding referenced jars to android build.xml

Question

I have an android eclipse project and have generated the corresponding build.xml ant file by doing:

android update test-project -p . -m ..\main_project

This compiles fine. However, in eclipse I have then added three referenced external jars (easymock, objenesis and cglib). In eclipse everything builds fine but then when I run the above command again it doesn't add these jars to the classpath.

So my question is how to tell the build.xml to include these jars?

I have done some research first and some people suggested changing the rules files in the sdk itself but this is something I want to avoid as then everyone in my team would need to do this and that's not practical.

Thanks Stephen

Answer 1

add jar.libs.dir=your_path_here/lib in ant.properties for SDK >=8

Answer 2

For build.xml you can set property "external.libs.dir" in one of your properties file( like build.properties), by default it points to libs/ folder of your project - simply put there all your jars

external.libs.dir=<your_custom_path>/lib

Answer 3

You should ideally use libs/ not lib, to remain consistent with Eclipse.