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Subject: Re: Ant on Mac OS X
From: Antoine Levy Lambert <antoine () gmx ! de>
Date: 2014-03-10 1:22:31
Message-ID: E6A7460E-A67B-4EF8-9A79-914A128840F7 () gmx ! de
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The code to create an Ant installer for Mac OS X has been added to Ant 1.9.3, but the \
Ant project for now does not distribute this Ant installer.
There is a target pkg_distribution in the build.xml of Ant which can be used to build \
the OS X installer from source.
Regards,
Antoine
On Mar 9, 2014, at 7:01 AM, wolfgang häfelinger <whaefelinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> *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 <adanecito@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.araya@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 <hputman@lexmark.com> wrote:
> >
> > > brew install ant
> > >
> > > See http://brew.sh/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Tony Anecito <adanecito@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Many Many Thanks!!
> > > >
> > > > -Tony
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:28 PM, BryanBerg <bberg@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 <lists@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 <adanecito@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
> > > > >
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>
>
>
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