Difference between revisions of "EiffelOnMac"

Revision as of 14:26, 31 October 2006

Requirements

• Install X11, X11SDK and XCode from your OSX-Installation disk
• Download DarwinPorts-1.3.2.tar.bz2 from macports.org
  • open a terminal (Programs->Utilities->Terminal) and type:

cd your_download_directory
tar xjvf DarwinPorts-1.3.2.tar.bz2
cd DarwinPorts-1.3.2
./configure && make && sudo make install
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH

• Install GTK2 from macports by typing:

sudo port install gtk2

Getting EiffelStudio

PPC

If you use a Mac, that does not have an Intel Processor, you can download EiffelStudio here:

• EiffelStudio57.app (19.10.2006 - Revision 64380)

• or maybe you just want the Eiffel57 folder (19.10.2006 - Revision 64380)
  • Note: This file is compressed using 7-zip. 7z compresses the Eiffel57 distribution 15 MB smaller than bzip2. To uncompress it either get the p7zip package from macports and use this command:

    7za x -so Eiffel57_gpl_64380-macosx-ppc.tar.7z | tar xfv - 

Intel

An Application-Package for Intel will be provided soon. For the moment, you we can provide:

• MacOS X - Intel (25.10.2006 - Revision 64493) :
  • Compiled Archive with darwinports (the archive is compiled using darwin ports - so you SHOULD have installed the latest version of darwin ports): Eiffel57_gpl_macosx-intel-DarwinPorts_64493.tar.gz
  • Compiled Archive with macports (the archive is compiled using mac ports - so you SHOULD have installed the latest version of mac ports): Eiffel57_gpl_macosx-intel-MacPorts_64493.tar.gz

Compiling Eiffel Studio using the Porter Package

Environment

Eiffel Studio needs several environment variables in order to work properly. I suggest you put them into your .bashrc and .profile file in your home directory. (on my system .bashrc is a symlink to .profile)

You need to define the following variables:

# for Macports
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info

# For EiffelStudio
export ISE_PLATFORM=macosx-ppc # macosx-x86 on intel
export ISE_EIFFEL=<PATH TO YOUR Eiffel57 directory e.g. /Developer/Applications/Eiffel57>

export PATH=$PATH:$ISE_EIFFEL/studio/spec/$ISE_PLATFORM/bin:$GOBO/bin

# Optional
export GOBO=$ISE_EIFFEL/library/gobo # Only needed if you want to use gobo
export EIFFEL_SRC=<PATH TO YOUR EIFFEL SVN CHECKOUT, only needed if you want to compile ES yourself>
export ISE_LIBRARY=$ISE_EIFFEL # If this is not defined it defaults to ISE_EIFFEL

Software Requirements

As above you need:

• X11, X11SDK, XCode. Install them from your Install Disk that came with your Mac. (You can get the latest Xcode and X11 on the web.)
• MacPorts previously known as Darwin Ports
• GTK2 from MacPorts: Do a "sudo port install gtk2" , this will install gtk2 and all required dependencies

Note

NOTE: Since the C code generated by Eiffel Studio might not work properly if compiled with gcc 4, you might want to switch to GCC 3 by doing a "sudo gcc_select 3.3". However I've never encountered this problem with GCC4.

Installation

1. Make sure that you have all requirements that are listed above and that you have set the ISE_PLATFORM environment variable to macosx-ppc or macosx-x86 depending on your platform.
2. Download the latest Porter Package from here (PorterPackage_57_XXXXX.tar)
3. Extract the PorterPackage, double-clicking should work
4. Open a Terminal window and cd into the PorterPackage directory
5. Compile the Porter Package:

   ./compile_exes $ISE_PLATFORM

   This will compile the complete EiffelStudio Package. This takes 1-2 hours depending on your machine.
6. IMPORTANT : The installation now resides in PorterPackage/Eiffel57. In order to make it work you have to set execution permissions on the ec executable.

   chmod a+x Eiffel57/studio/spec/$ISE_PLATFORM/bin/ec

7. Now you can move the Eiffel57 directory to any place you want. Just make sure to set the ISE_EIFFEL evironment variable accordingly.
8. If you want the gobo tools you can compile them using this script, which will place them in the correct directory and clean up: gobo-script.sh

Running Eiffel Studio

Enter "estudio" in a X-Term window. Make sure that your macports installation is the first item in your PATH environment variable.

Hints

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