Liferay ant deploy failed - deployment

Question

I am trying to deploy my first "hello-world"-portlet for Liferay
but I get a "BUILD FAILED" when deploying it.
My folders look like this:
D:\[Code Home]\bundles\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2
and
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\portlets
My build.[username].properties file contains this:
app.server.portal.dir = D:\\[Code Home]\\bundles\\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\\tomcat- 7.0.42\\webapps\\ROOT
app.server.lib.global.dir = D:\\[Code Home]\\bundles\\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\\lib\\ext
app.server.deploy.dir = D:\\[Code Home]\\bundles\\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\\tomcat-7.0.42\\webapps
app.server.type = tomcat
app.server.dir = D:\\[Code Home]\\bundles\\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\\tomcat-7.0.42
When deploying the portlet I get this:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\portlets>ant deploy
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=512m; sup
port was removed in 8.0
Buildfile: D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\portlets\build.xml
deploy:
BUILD FAILED
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common-plugins.xml:57: The
following error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:1387: The follow
ing error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:1392: The follow
ing error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:235: The followi
ng error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:993: The followi
ng error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:299: The followi
ng error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:1766: The follow
ing error occurred while executing this line:
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\build-common.xml:175: D:\[Code Ho
me]\bundles\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\lib\ext does not exist.
Total time: 0 seconds
D:\[Code Home]\plugins\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2\portlets>
any idea where the problem is?

Answer 1

Seems you are missing auto.deploy.dir value.
Here is my build.properties values.
app.server.type=tomcat
app.server.parent.dir=/home/maleen/workspace/liferay
app.server.tomcat.dir=${app.server.parent.dir}/tomcat-7.0.40
app.server.tomcat.deploy.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/webapps
app.server.tomcat.lib.global.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/lib/ext
app.server.tomcat.portal.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/webapps/ROOT
auto.deploy.dir=${app.server.parent.dir}/deploy
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The error message says
D:\[Code Home]\bundles\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\lib\ext does not exist.
Does it? If not: You need to either create it (e.g. unzip a bundle at that location) or configure your build.username.properties - what's this?
Look at build.properties - you'll find many values configured in there. Just like with other property files in Liferay, you should identify the value that you want to change from the default, create a file named build.username.properties (replace with your actual username) and override the value that you'd like to change - e.g. app.server.parent.dir is a good candidate to point to your unzipped bundle.
Note that Java8 is not yet officially supported by Liferay: This is a portal that runs on so many existing application server that it's a bit slower in adopting new environments. That's not to say that it won't work - only if you run into Java8 related problems, you might want to try Java7, and be slow to adopt the new features so that you can easily backport.