Hi Folks,
If you are a little familiar with the new tcsh-shell on Mac OS X, you can have a preview of working with JBuilder [editor's note: JBuilder is a commercial Java development environment from Borland which is due out shortly on Mac OS X natively]
If you have jBuilder and would like to see it running on OS X, read the rest of the article for instructions on getting the Linux version running on your Mac.
Copy a whole Linux installation to any directory (the best way ist to "tar" it). In your HOME-directory create a new folder named ".jbuilder4". Use the following shell-script to start jbuilder (must be located in the "bin"-folder of jbuilder):
#!/bin/sh
# JBuilder startup script for Mac OS X, using Linux-installation of JBuilder4
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Stephan Clemenz, University of Kaiserslautern, Computer Science
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JBdir=/any_directory/jbuilder4
# Load the config library
. "$JBdir/bin/cfglib.sh"
cd $JBdir/bin
javapath /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Commands/java
vmparam -Xverify:none
vmparam -Xms8m
vmparam -Xmx128m
addbootpath ../lib/lawt.jar
addjars /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Classes
addjars ../lib
addjars ../lib/ext
mainclass com.borland.jbuilder.JBuilder
CMD="$jvm $bootPath -cp $CLASSPATH $vmArgs $mainClass -nosplash $@"
exec $CMD
That's all. On my Mac it works really fine and has all functionality.
Good luck
Stephan
stephan@transonic.de
Mac OS X Hints
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