Build ***** .. highlight:: c++ ant === Downloaded ``apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.zip`` from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi. Extracted to: :: C:\tools\apache-ant-1.6.5 Created a batch file with the following contents: :: set ANT_HOME=C:\tools\apache-ant-1.6.5 set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin set JAVA_HOME=C:\tools\jdk1.5 call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat" Created a shortcut to this batch file: :: %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /k C:\development\tools\batch\log4cxx-build.bat Checkout log4cxx ================ Checked out log4cxx from the Subversion repository: :: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4cxx/trunk log4cxx I checked out to: :: C:\src\log4cxx\ Dependencies ============ Windows ------- Downloaded ``cpptasks-1.0b4.zip`` from http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ and extracted ``cpptasks.jar`` to: :: C:\tools\apache-ant-1.6.5\lib Build log4cxx ============= Build the library (the ``-Ddebug=false`` can be removed if you want to build debug versions): :: ant -Ddebug=false Does not pass all the unit tests... but it has produced some ``dll`` files. The problem might be because ``sed`` is not on the path: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.logging.log4cxx.user/644/match=transformer+cpp.