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Version 22.1 by Pascal Robert on 2007/12/30 07:02
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3 Work in progress
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7 = Moving the WebObjects frameworks from a Mac to a Windows machine =
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9 The WebObjects frameworks are available on the Xcode tools, which cannot be install on a Windows (or any other Linux/UNIX variant) machine. Before developing on Windows, you need to get access on a Mac, make a archive of the frameworks and move this archive to your Windows machine. You can fetch the frameworks without having to install them on the Mac.
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11 * 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/]].
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13 * Mount, on a Mac, the DMG file.
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17 cp /Volumes/Xcode\ Tools/Packages/Packages/WebObjectsRuntime.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz /tmp
18 cd /tmp
19 unzip Archive.pax.gz
20 pax -r -f Archive.pax
21 tar cf WebObjectsRuntime.tar Library System
22 cp WebObjectsRuntime.tar -> Windows
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26 1) Create the structure:
27 C:pple
28 C:ppleocalibraryrameworks (equivalent to /Library/Frameworks on the Mac)
29 C:ppleibraryrameworks (equivalent to /System/Library/Frameworks on the Mac)
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31 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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33 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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35 4) Create a wobuild.properties file in C:ocuments and Settingsyour user>ibrary with the contents:
36 wo.woroot=C:/Apple
37 wo.wolocalroot=C:/Apple/Local
38 wo.wosystemroot=C:/Apple
39 wo.homeroot=C:/Temp
40 eclipse.home=C:/Programs Files/eclipse
41 wo.dir.library.frameworks=C:/Apple/Library/Frameworks
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43 5) Install eclipse 3.3.1.1
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45 6) Install WOLips nightly from [[http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/nightly]]
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47 That should be it, I think?  The things that are problematic right now on Windows:
48 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
49 2) Couple images have backgrounds that should not
50 3) Outline view in component editor is not right
51 4) AutoOpenInBrowser doesn't work unless you override Application.//isSupportedDevelopmentPlatform to return true//
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53 I THINK that was it, but there might have been a couple other misc items .. I'll have to go back through and doublecheck.