Ant compile doesn't copy the resources

Question

I created my own build.xml which has:

<target name="compile">     <mkdir dir="build"/>      <javac destdir="build">          <src path="src"/>      </javac> </target>  <target name="build" depends="compile">     <mkdir dir="dist"/>     <jar destfile="dist/app.jar" basedir="build" /> </target>  <target name="run" depends="compile">     <java classname="webserver.Loader" classpath="build" fork="true" />       </target> 

It works great. When I call ant run so it compiles and runs my application, but my application has a package with icons and it isn't moved to a folder "build" so my application ends with an exception that it couldn't locate my icons. When I move them by myself then it works.

I tried to use

<copy todir="build/app/icons">     <fileset dir="src/app/icons"/> </copy> 

It works, but I would like to do it without the copy command. Is there any parameter to javac? Or something else?

Thank you for answer.

Answer 1

There is no such parameter. You can copy all sorts of files between your directories with:

<copy todir="build">     <fileset dir="src"              includes="**/*.xml,**/*.properties,**/*.txt,**/*.ico" /> </copy>