That’s awesome. Also Perl should be on every Unix system. Personally I used homebrew and it was super fast and easy to get it up and going
> On Dec 24, 2022, at 3:28 PM, Somnath Kumar <somnathkumar2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>
