Thank you Shawn. Just tried this and it worked! Som
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:28 PM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 12/19/22 15:20, Somnath Kumar wrote: > > Hello, I am a newbie to Solr and am trying to compile and run locally on > > mac. Pointer to any documentation for newcomers to do this will be > greatly > > appreciated. > > You will need a JDK and perl. > > For Solr 8.x, you need JDK8 at a minimum, and 11 is probably better. I > don't think I would go any higher than JDK 11 for 8.x. Jumping too many > major releases can cause problems. > > For 9.x, you need JDK 11 at a minimum, and 17 is probably better. > > My stepdaughter's mac has perl installed and I don't think she has ever > installed it herself. I doubt she has any idea how to use perl. > > There's probably some easy way to install a JDK on a mac. I have one > from work around here somewhere but I can't find it right now so I don't > have explicit steps. > > Perl and the JDK will be enough to run either of these commands (which > are appropriate for Solr 9.x, not 8.x): > > ./gradlew clean dev > ./gradlew clean distTar > > The dev target gets you a directory with a runnable solr in: > solr/packaging/build/dev/ > > The distTar target gets you a file named something like: > solr/packaging/build/distributions/solr-9.2.0-SNAPSHOT.tgz > which works exactly like the binary Solr download. > > If you want to do one of the more comprehensive build targets that > involve building the documentation (and maybe the targets involving > tests), you will also need python3, which is also installed on my > stepdaughter's mac and I don't think it would be something she would > have downloaded. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
