*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.*
How about to use this one-liner? $ mkdir tmp && (wget -qO- http://mirror.synyx.de/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.3-bin.tar.gz | tar xz -C ./tmp) && ./tmp/apache-ant-1.9.3/bin/ant -version Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013 Pretty easy on MacOS although this one-liner requires wget which is not installed by default to my knowledge. However, curl is. Thus $ mkdir tmp && (curl http://mirror.synyx.de/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.3-bin.tar.gz | tar xz -C ./tmp) && ./tmp/apache-ant-1.9.3/bin/ant -version Is it really so difficult to get Ant running on a Mac? On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Tony Anecito <adanec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I do have xcode but I am using Java for OS X and my preference is to have > the build environment separate from the IDE when doing final builds for QA > and prod environments. Removes a lot of risk and improves repeatability. > > Thanks for the feedback. > -Tony > > > > On Saturday, March 8, 2014 10:59 AM, Carlos Araya <carlos.ar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Tony, > > Doesn't Ant come bundled with Xcode? If you're doing any sort of > development on OS X it would pay to install the dev tools and then check if > ant gets installed with it and it may not be the current version. > > Carlos > > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Harold Putman <hput...@lexmark.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- Wolfgang Häfelinger
