Ant with external libraries and external projects

I usually use eclipse, now I must use ant for obfuscate my code.
In eclipse I can import external jars and project. Here is my classpath
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
     <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
     <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
     <classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/PEI"/>
     <classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/PEI implementation"/>
     <classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/Logger"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Java/libraries/jfreechart-1.0.13/jfreechart-1.0.13/lib/jcommon-1.0.16.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Java/libraries/jfreechart-1.0.13/jfreechart-1.0.13/lib/jfreechart-1.0.13.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Java/libraries/jcalendar-1.3.3/lib/looks-2.0.1.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Java/libraries/jcalendar-1.3.3/lib/jcalendar-1.3.3.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Java/libraries/mail.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
</classpath> How can I do the same thing with ant?

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