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 <li...@pbw.id.au> wrote: 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. It's a good idea to create a softlink to the distribution directory. So if you have /Users/me/software/apache-ant-1.9.3, create a link like so: $ cd /Users/me/software $ ln -s apache-ant-1.9.3 ant Now you can set the ANT_HOME environment variable to /Users/me/software/ant, and when you install a new distribution of ant, you only have to delete the old link and create a new one. In /users/me/software/ant is a directory bin which contains the shell scripts (compatible with linux/unix and os x) which will be used to run ant. You need to make sure that the bin directory is on your PATH. In your .profile, add the following. Near the top of the file, define these functions: set_env_var () { eval export $1=\""$2"\" eval launchctl setenv "$1" \""$2"\" } unset_env_var () { unset $1 eval launchctl unsetenv "$1" } Anywhere below that in .profile, you can now define environment variables that will also be set for programs that run directly from the GUI. After your PATH environment variable has been set, add this: set_env_var ANT_HOME /Users/me/software/ant PATH="$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin" export PATH launchctl setenv PATH "$PATH" Peter West ...and again, as his custom was, he taught them. On 6 Mar 2014, at 7:03 am, Tony Anecito <adanec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
