title: Build from GIT Repository
body: <p>I'm trying to build geoexplorer.war from github :  <a href="https://github.com/boundlessgeo/suite/tree/master/geoexplorer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/boundlessgeo/suite/tree/master/geoexplorer</a>, I already Installed maven, Java, Ivy, Ant, Python, Git for windows, Ruby. But still I cant build geoexplorer.war , it said no POM.</p>
  
  <p>According to Instruction I use <strong>mvn install</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 0.148 s
  [INFO] Finished at: 2014-07-08T01:18:40+08:00
  [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/85M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM
   in this directory (C:\Users\user1\suite\geoexplorer). Please verify you invoked
   Maven from the correct directory. -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
  ch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
  d the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProject
  Exception
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>According Suggestion I use <strong>ant</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\user1\suite\geoexplorer&gt;ant
  Buildfile: C:\Users\user1\suite\geoexplorer\build.xml
  
  help:
  
  BUILD FAILED
  C:\Users\Mikah\suite\build\common.xml:35: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: C
  annot run program "ant": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file
  specified
          at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1042)
          at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:620)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute$Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Exec
  ute.java:862)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.launch(Execute.java:481)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.execute(Execute.java:495)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExecute(ExecTask.java:631)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExec(ExecTask.java:672)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.execute(ExecTask.java:498)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
  java:62)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
  sorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.jav
  a:106)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExe
  cutor.java:41)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
          at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find th
  e file specified
          at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
          at java.lang.ProcessImpl.&lt;init&gt;(ProcessImpl.java:386)
          at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:137)
          at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1023)
          ... 24 more
  
  Total time: 0 seconds
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any solution? I'm really new in this Git, Ant and Maven things.</p>