Prevent eclipse from building the projects before run an Ant task

Asked 28/11, 2013 at 2:6 Answered 5/12, 2016 at 15:8

I want to prevent the project from compiling when I run an Ant task, how is this done?

Eclipse build setting is not automatic but the build still remains running before any ant task be launched.

Aurum answered 28/11, 2013 at 2:6 Comment(0)

You can turn off "Build (if required) before launch"

You have turned rebuild off for resource modification but I believe you haven't turned off "Build (if required) before launch"

Go to:

Window > Preferences > Run/Debug > Launching -> Build (if required) before launching

On older versions of eclipse:

Window > Preferences > Run/Debug > Build (if required) before launching

Aurum answered 28/11, 2013 at 2:18 Comment(0)

In newer versions of Eclipse (I have Neon) the option has moved slightly to:

Window > Preferences > Run/Debug > Launching

The checkbox is still named: Build (if required) before launching.

Heinie answered 5/12, 2016 at 15:8 Comment(0)