title: ant build fails with Basedir error in windows platform
body: <p>I am trying to set up my project on my laptop which runs on windows 7.
  I am not able to build the project, it throws an error </p>
  
  <pre><code>BUILD FAILED
  C:\Projects\apsrtc-oprs\src\build.xml:118: Basedir C:\Projects\apsrtc-oprs\src\Projectsapsrtc-oprs\src\components does not exist
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My <code>build.properties</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>#
  # For developers/PC pls update the project.base and deploy.dir accordingly in the build.properties file
  # Donot Modify or change the build.properties.console file, use the template file instead...
  #
  # To avoid ant quirks, the project.base here must be a full absolute path
  
  project.base=C:\Projects\apsrtc-oprs
  
  # Deployment directory
  deploy.dir=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps
  cxf.home=C:\Projects\apache-cxf-2.6.0
  
  # Log files
  log.file.path.windows=C:\Projects\apsrtc-oprs\dist\logs\log4j.log
  project.keystore.pwd=AbhS!g4n9Jar0Prod6O3P3R4S5
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My <code>build.xml</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;project name="APSRTC_project" default="build" basedir="."&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Read the system environment variables and stores them in properties, --&gt;
      &lt;!-- prefixed with "env.". --&gt;
      &lt;property environment="env."/&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- define all settings for different kinds of builds --&gt;
      &amp;load-flag-targets;
  
      &lt;!-- setup targets to options --&gt;
      &lt;target name="--init"&gt;
          &lt;tstamp /&gt;
          &lt;copy file="build.properties.console" tofile="build.properties" overwrite="false"/&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- The build.properties file defines the project base and easuite-lib directories --&gt;
          &lt;!-- This must be loaded before the &amp;set-properties; inclusion --&gt;
          &lt;property file="./build.properties"/&gt;
          &lt;echoproperties prefix="env." destfile="env.properties"/&gt;
      &lt;/target&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- invokes build script to clean apps and components  --&gt;
      &lt;target name="clean" depends="--init"&gt;
          &lt;!-- set the properties based on the build flags --&gt;
          &amp;set-properties;
  
          &lt;ant dir="${project.base}/src/components" target="clean"/&gt;
          &lt;ant dir="${project.base}/src/apps" target="clean"/&gt;
      &lt;/target&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to clean the project and gets the above mentioned error at</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;ant dir="${project.base}/src/components" target="clean"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>by changing the path of Basedir and other related paths in build.properties file works fine on my Centos Operating system. Where exactly i am going wrong ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>