Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Tony Anecito
Hi All, I am new to Mac OS X. What is the easiest way to get Ant running on OS X? I tried copying my ant folder from Windows to Mac OS X and it would not run. Thanks! -Tony

Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Donald McLean
Mac OS X is nothing like Windows. It's a version of Unix though. You should consider using one of the free IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse or IDEA Community Edition. On 3/5/14 4:03 PM, Tony Anecito wrote: Hi All, I am new to Mac OS X. What is the easiest way to get Ant running on OS X? I tried copy

Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Ed Mansky
Hi Tony, Depending on the version of OSX you are running, you probably already have Ant installed and ready for use. Look in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands --or /Library/Java/Home/bin If you are running an older version of Darwin/OSX, and you've installed the Develop

Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Peter West
Download the binary distribution (latest is 1.9.3) from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi Unzip (or gunzip) the distribution somewhere on your system. If you are happy using sudo, you can put it in /usr/local, for example. Otherwise, put it in you home directory at a convenient location. I

Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Tony Anecito
I am already using Eclipse on the Mac. I usually setup a build environment separate from an IDE. I know Windows is different but was hoping since Ant uses Java that it would work under OS X.   Thanks, -Tony On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:14 PM, Peter West wrote: Download the binary distribu

Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread BryanBerg
It does, I have it installed on OS X, separate from my IDE. Ant installation instructions are also at: http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html Be certain to add ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar into your ANT_HOME installation directory, I'm not sure if this was specified in the instructions, but not hav

Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Tony Anecito
Many Many Thanks!! -Tony On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:28 PM, BryanBerg wrote: It does, I have it installed on OS X, separate from my IDE. Ant installation instructions are also at: http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html Be certain to add ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar into your ANT_HOME instal