brew install ant See http://brew.sh
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Tony Anecito <adanec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Harold PUTMAN Web Technology Specialist *Lexmark International, Inc. <http://www.lexmark.com>* 740 W New Circle Rd. Lexington, KY 40550 +1(859) 232-2839 hput...@lexmark.com
