Execute play from Ant script

Question

I'm looking for a way to run play dist through an Ant build script. I've looked into using the exec task but it is not working for me. Here is what I tried:

<target name="deploy">
    <exec executable="play">
        <arg value="dist" />
    </exec>    
</target>

I'm getting this error:

C:\Users\path\to\build.xml:39: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "play": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

Play is already in my Path environment variable and I can execute it from the command line by typing play so that isn't the problem. I'm not allowed to use absolute paths due to sysadmin constraints.

Any ideas?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '14 at 11:51

Ended up manually searching for the Play executable and storing the property to use in the exec task:

<exec executable="where" outputproperty="play.dir" osfamily="windows">
        <arg value="play.bat" />
</exec>
<exec executable="which" outputproperty="play.dir" osfamily="unix">
        <arg value="play" />
</exec>

<exec executable="${play.dir}" dir=" ... ">
        <arg value="dist" />
</exec>

Execute play from Ant script

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