First, you'll need to download and install Ant 1.6 and JUnit 3.8.1. I put the junit jar file in my ANT_HOME/lib/ directory and all was well, your mileage may vary.
Now you'll need to either check out the source code or download the latest source release. Assuming you've got the latest source release, unzip it to a directory:
[tom@hal building]$ ls -l total 5716 -rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 5837216 Jul 17 13:09 pmd-src-3.1.zip [tom@hal building]$ unzip -q pmd-src-3.1.zip [tom@hal building]$
Now cd down into the pmd/bin
directory:
[tom@hal building]$ cd pmd-3.1/bin/ [tom@hal bin]$ ls -l | grep build.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 5736 Jun 19 15:36 build.xml [tom@hal bin]$
There's our Ant build file... let's compile!
[tom@hal bin]$ ant compile Buildfile: build.xml compile: [javac] Compiling 509 source files to /home/tom/data/pmd/pmd/build BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 6 seconds [tom@hal bin]$
Notes:
A paucity of detail, I'm sure you'd agree. If you think this document can be improved, please post here and let me know how. Thanks!