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Version 19.1 by Gavin Eadie on 2007/12/30 12:20
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3 Work in progress
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9 = Moving the WebObjects frameworks from a Mac to a Windows machine =
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11 The WebObjects frameworks are part of the Xcode tools distribution (available on the Mac OS X DVD, or as a download from Apple, see below) which cannot be installed on a Windows (or any Linux/UNIX variant) machine directly. So, before developing on Windows, you will need to get access on a Mac, make a archive of the frameworks and move this archive to your Windows machine. You can extract the frameworks from XCode without having to install them on the intermediate Mac.
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13 * Obtain Xcode 2.5 (if you want to work with WebObjects 5.3), or Xcode 3.0 (if you want to work with WebObjects 5.4) at [[ADC>>http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/]]. Note that you will need to sign up for an ADC membership, but the "online" membership is free.
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15 * Mount, on a Mac, the DMG file.
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17 {{code}}
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19 cp /Volumes/Xcode\ Tools/Packages/Packages/WebObjectsRuntime.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz /tmp
20 cd /tmp
21 unzip Archive.pax.gz
22 pax -r -f Archive.pax
23 tar cf WebObjectsRuntime.tar Library System
24 cp WebObjectsRuntime.tar -> Windows
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26 {{/code}}
27
28 = Create the file structure on your Windows machine =
29
30 1) Create the structure:
31 C:pple
32 C:ppleocalibraryrameworks (equivalent to /Library/Frameworks on the Mac)
33 C:ppleibraryrameworks (equivalent to /System/Library/Frameworks on the Mac)
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35 2) Copy all the frameworks from /System/Library/Frameworks on a Mac that are named Java except for JavaScriptCore and JavaVM to C:ppleibraryrameworks
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37 {{code}}
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39 mv WebObjectsRuntime.tar/Library/* C:\Apple\Local\Library\Frameworks
40 mv WebObjectsRuntime.tar/System/Library/* C:\Apple\Library\Frameworks
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42 {{/code}}
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44 {{warning}}
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46 3) If you copied a 5.2, you will need to put a Windows License.key in JavaWebObjects.framework/Resources.  If you copied a 5.3, I think it's a universal license key.
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48 {{/warning}}
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50 4) Create a wobuild.properties file in C:ocuments and Settingsyour user>ibrary with the contents:
51 wo.woroot=C:/Apple
52 wo.wolocalroot=C:/Apple/Local
53 wo.wosystemroot=C:/Apple
54 wo.homeroot=C:/Temp
55 eclipse.home=C:/Programs Files/eclipse
56 wo.dir.library.frameworks=C:/Apple/Library/Frameworks
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58 = Install Eclipse and WOLips =
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60 5) Install eclipse Classic 3.3.1.1
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62 6) Install WOLips nightly from [[http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/nightly]]
63
64 = Notes =
65
66 That should be it, I think?  The things that are problematic right now on Windows:
67 1) The woproject/**.patternset don't work quite right on Windows.  If you don't have subfolders in your Resources/Components/etc, you can work around it by converting Components~/~/**/etc/** to Components/**, same w/ Resources and WebServerResources
68 2) Couple images have backgrounds that should not
69 3) Outline view in component editor is not right
70 4) AutoOpenInBrowser doesn't work unless you override Application.//isSupportedDevelopmentPlatform to return true//
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72 I THINK that was it, but there might have been a couple other misc items .. I'll have to go back through and doublecheck.