Many Many Thanks!! -Tony
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:28 PM, BryanBerg <bb...@spawar.navy.mil> 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 installation directory, I'm not sure if this was specified in the instructions, but not having this jar gave me some hiccups. Bryan On 3/5/14 3:50 PM, Tony Anecito wrote: > 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
