Building WebDSL on Mac (developers)
WebDSL compilation from source on Mac OS X (tested on 10.6 Snow Leopard).
Nix requirements
Apple Xcode: install from your DVD.
MacPorts: download and install MacPorts.
If you already had ports installed, you may need to do an update:
sudo port -d selfupdate
Install the required ports:
sudo port install curl m4 autoconf automake pkgconfig libtool subversion
Add to your ~/.profile:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin/:$PATH
To make sure the ports version of these tools is used instead of the older ones in XCode (assuming the default MacPorts install directory).
Nix installation
The Nix package manager needs to be installed, version 0.13 or higher.
Download the latest nix build: Download -> Latest unstable release -> Source distribution nix-0.13*.tar.gz. Untar it
tar -xzf nix-*.tar.gz
configure it (no –prefix!)
cd nix-*
./configure
and then make && sudo make install.
make && sudo make install
To start using nix using your regular (non-root) account, do the following:
sudo chown -R $USER /nix
Next, run the shell script to configure the correct paths (and add
this line to your ~/.profile file):
. /usr/local/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
and restart bash or source the .profile file.
. ~/.profile
Installation of WebDSL requirements with Nix
Install the Stratego/XT packages:
nix-channel --add http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/strategoxt/strategoxt-packages/channel/latest
nix-channel --update
Then (should have at least Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard):
nix-env --system-filter x86_64-darwin -i aterm java-front sdf2-bundle strategoxt strc-java
Then, update your ~/.profile again and add:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/.nix-profile/lib/pkgconfig
and restart bash or source the .profile file.
. ~/.profile
Updating WebDSL requirements (not required for initial installation)
nix-channel --update
nix-env -u '*' --system-filter x86_64-darwin
Checkout and install WebDSL
Do a checkout of the latest version of WebDSL with your favorite subversion client (be it subversion itself, or git-svn):
svn co https://svn.strategoxt.org/repos/WebDSL/webdsls/trunk webdsl
And compile it:
cd webdsls
./bootstrap
./configure --enable-java-backend --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
Known Issues When Compiling WebDSL
Under Snow Leopard, the Stratego compiler is missing these two libraries:
/usr/lib/libreadline.6.0.dylib
/usr/lib/libhistory.6.0.dylib
You can fix this by installing the readline libraries with MacPorts and creating symbolic links for the missing libraries:
sudo port install readline
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libreadline.6.0.dylib /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libhistory.6.0.dylib /usr/lib/
or, if 6.1 but not 6.0 is available:
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libreadline.6.1.dylib /usr/lib/libreadline.6.0.dylib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libhistory.6.1.dylib /usr/lib/libhistory.6.0.dylib
Known Issues When Running WebDSL
If you run into segmentation faults when using Snow Leopard (64bit Stratego, also holds for Leopard with 64bit Stratego), the stack size must be set higher, add
ulimit -s 64000
to your ~/.profile and source it.
Java 6
You may have to enable Java 6 SE, open
/Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences
to configure your Java version (drag Java 6 SE to the top). Add the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables in your ~/.profile file:
export PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Commands:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home
and restart bash or source the .profile file.
. ~/.profile
Tomcat
Download Tomcat 6.x, Binary Distributions, Core, tar.gz direct link
extract tar.gz file
tar -xzf apache-tomcat-*.tar.gz
and add bin dir to path, e.g.:
export PATH=/Users/someone/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/:$PATH
and restart bash or source the .profile file.
. ~/.profile
Make the catalina.sh file executable:
chmod +x catalina.sh
Start tomcat using:
catalina.sh run
Mysql
Extract tar.gz file:
tar -xzf mysql*.tar.gz
and add bin dir to path, e.g.:
export PATH=/Users/someone/mysql*/bin/:$PATH
Start mysql using:
mysqld&
Known Mysql installation issues
If extracting the tar and running mysqld directly results in errors, try installing mysql using the .DMG and starting it using the prefpane or startup item included in the installation.