Prevent eclipse from creating projects before completing the Ant task

Question

I want the project not to compile when performing the Ant task, how to do this?

Configuring the Eclipse build is not automatic, but the build still works before running any Ant task.

Answer 1

You can disable "Build (if required) before launch"

You have disabled rebuilding to modify the resource, but I assume that you have not disabled "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

Answer 2

In newer versions of Eclipse (I have Neon) the option has changed a bit:

Window > Preferences > Run/Debug > Launching

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