Cannot run phploc through ANT

Question

I've looked at both these posts.. they don't help:

If I run phploc at a shell prompt, it works just fine. So it must be something with my build.xml file... but I don't know what.

<target name="phploc" description="Measure project size using PHPLOC">
  <exec executable="phploc">
    <arg path="${basedir}/../src" />
    <arg value="--log-csv" />  
    <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/phploc.csv" />    
  </exec>
</target>

This works fine:

C:\projects\project1\build>phploc ../src
phploc 2.0.6 by Sebastian Bergmann.

My folder structure is

c:\projects\project1

      build
          ...
          vendor
             bin
             ...
      src
      tests

c:\projects\project1\build>ant phploc:

BUILD FAILED
C:\projects\project1\build\build.xml:55: Execute failed: java.io.IOException:
 Cannot run program "phploc": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the
file specified
        at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:620)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.launcher.Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Jav

UPDATE

C:\>where phploc
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).

What am I missing?

On the command prompt, what do you get when you type: `where phploc`? Please paste the output. — Technext, Aug 30 '14 at 09:53
Sorry, just busy with something else... Give me about an hour... — Maxcot, Aug 30 '14 at 11:25
C:\>where phploc INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s). — Maxcot, Aug 30 '14 at 11:47
Are you able to run phploc from this location itself i.e., C:\? I mean, if you provide the path to _src_ folder while staying at C:\, does it work? — Technext, Aug 30 '14 at 11:50
Assuming that `phploc` works when you run the command in `C:\projects\project1\build` dir but is not working when you are at C:\, just check whether there is any executable `phploc` in `C:\projects\project1\build` path. — Technext, Aug 30 '14 at 11:57
In my environment, I have in my path: `.\vendor\bin` So when I change to my build directory and run it at the command prompt, then I get a response C:\....>phploc and c:\......>phploc.bat — Maxcot, Aug 30 '14 at 11:58
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/60290/discussion-between-technext-and-maxcot). — Technext, Aug 30 '14 at 11:58
It's a path problem in ANT's build.xml file. Specifically, putting the explicit path to the executable. Thanks to Techext for the help — Maxcot, Aug 30 '14 at 12:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 30 '14 at 21:15

From chat discussion, it came out to be a PATH related issue. That's exactly what I was thinking it to be.

Setting absolute path of phploc in <exec executable="phploc"> did the trick. It was working on command line from C:\projects\project1\build directory because phploc was in one of its sub-directory (vendor\bin) and this sub-directory was already in the PATH variable.

PATH=C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\;C:\xampp\php;C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java;c:\ant\bin;.\vendor\bin

Note: Although providing absolute path worked here but it's a good practice to use relative path so that your project is portable. In this case, you could use basedir as the reference point for all relative paths.

Cannot run phploc through ANT

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