2) Extract the .zip file to a directory near to root
D:\apache-ant-1.9.3
3) Set following environment variables according to your directory structure.
ANT_HOME=D:\apache-ant-1.9.3
JAVA_HOME=D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45
PATH=D:\cygwin64\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;
if the PATH variable contains already contains paths. separate them with ";".
Every time a change is made to the environmental variables get a new command prompt. type the following two commands in the CMD to check whether the ANT is working properly
You will get an error since you have not passed a build XML for the first command.