Eclipse 3.4 ant task hangs

Question

When I launch an ant script from Eclipse 3.4.x it prints the output to console until certain stage. After that it often hangs (wait forever). Last lines that I see at the screen (console) - partial output from my obfuscator.

Under Eclipse 3.3.2 everything works fine (the same project, workspace, settings, JVM etc.).

Does anybody have the same issue? Any thoughts how to fix it?

Answer 1

I can see this phenomena with Eclipse 3.6 and Ant 1.7.1 as well. In my case I have to set the JRE in External Tool Configurations (Menu Run->External Tools) to "Run in the same JRE as the workspace", then it works fine.

Answer 2

i was using Eclipse 3.4.2 and ant task was hanging, ant output was getting onto the console only to a certain level and after that nothing was working.

I looked on the last line on the console and found some issue related to UTF-8.

This is the message (warning: unmappable character for encoding UTF8).

Go to External Tool. select the ant task, click on "Common Tab", change the encoding from default(UTF-8) to ISO-8859-1.