Ant vs Makefiles

[Jacob]

Hi,

I am working on a project that is written in Java but it's mainly used
in Unix environments and uses Makefiles to build.

I want to develop on this project in a Windows environment and I want
to:

***Convert the Makefiles into Ant Build files***

I see no particular good reason to switch to Ant.
If you install Cygwin on your Windows box, your
makefiles should work just fine.

For a Makefile framework well suited for Java
development, check
http://geosoft.no/development/javamake.html