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Version 29.1 by Quinton Dolan on 2008/04/11 02:07
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Gavin Eadie 17.1 1 {{warning}}
2 Work in progress
3 {{/warning}}
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Quinton Dolan 28.1 5 {{toc/}}
Pascal Robert 23.1 6
Gavin Eadie 17.1 7 = Moving the WebObjects frameworks from a Mac to a Windows machine =
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Quinton Dolan 28.1 9 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.
Gavin Eadie 17.1 10
Quinton Dolan 28.1 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>>url:http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/||shape="rect"]] – these are in the form of large (about 1 GB) disk images. Note that you will need to sign up for an ADC membership, but the "online" membership is free.
Gavin Eadie 17.1 12
Quinton Dolan 28.1 13 * Mount, on a Mac, the DMG file. Then, for XCode 2.5 / Mac OS X Tiger:
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15 {{code}}
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17 cp /Volumes/Xcode\ Tools/Packages/Packages/WebObjectsRuntime.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz /tmp
18 cd /tmp
Pascal Robert 23.1 19 unzip Archive.pax.gz
Gavin Eadie 17.1 20 pax -r -f Archive.pax
21 tar cf WebObjectsRuntime.tar Library System
22 cp WebObjectsRuntime.tar -> Windows
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24 {{/code}}
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Quinton Dolan 27.1 26 ... and for XCode 3.0 / Mac OS X Leopard (since Installer packages are created differently in Leopard):
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28 {{code}}
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30 mkdir -p /tmp/wo ; cd /tmp/wo
31 xar -vxf "/Volumes/Xcode Tools/Packages/WebObjectsRuntime.pkg" ; pax -rzf Payload
32 tar cf WebObjectsRuntime.tar Library System
33 cp WebObjectsRuntime.tar -> Windows
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35 {{/code}}
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Pascal Robert 23.1 37 = Create the file structure on your Windows machine =
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Gavin Eadie 17.1 39 1) Create the structure:
Quinton Dolan 28.1 40 C:\Apple
41 C:\Apple\Local\Library\Frameworks (equivalent to /Library/Frameworks on the Mac)
42 C:\Apple\Library\Frameworks (equivalent to /System/Library/Frameworks on the Mac)
Gavin Eadie 17.1 43
Quinton Dolan 28.1 44 2) Copy all the frameworks from /System/Library/Frameworks on a Mac that are named Java* except for JavaScriptCore and JavaVM to C:\Apple\Library\Frameworks
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Quinton Dolan 27.1 46 {{code}}
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48 mv WebObjectsRuntime.tar/Library/* C:\Apple\Local\Library\Frameworks
49 mv WebObjectsRuntime.tar/System/Library/* C:\Apple\Library\Frameworks
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51 {{/code}}
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Pascal Robert 23.1 53 {{warning}}
Quinton Dolan 28.1 54 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.
Pascal Robert 23.1 55 {{/warning}}
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Quinton Dolan 28.1 57 4) Create a wobuild.properties file in C:\Documents and Settings\<your user>\Library with the contents:
58 wo.woroot=C:/Apple
59 wo.wolocalroot=C:/Apple/Local
60 wo.wosystemroot=C:/Apple
61 wo.homeroot=C:/Temp
62 eclipse.home=C:/Programs Files/eclipse
63 wo.dir.library.frameworks=C:/Apple/Library/Frameworks
Gavin Eadie 17.1 64
Pascal Robert 23.1 65 = Install Eclipse and WOLips =
Gavin Eadie 17.1 66
Quinton Dolan 28.1 67 Install [[Eclipse and WOLips>>url:http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Install+WOLips+with+Eclipse+Update+Manager||shape="rect"]]
Pascal Robert 23.1 68
69 = Notes =
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Quinton Dolan 28.1 71 That should be it, I think?  The things that are problematic right now on Windows:
72 1) The {{code language="none"}}woproject/*.patternset{{/code}} don't work quite right on Windows with older versions of WOLips. If you don't have subfolders in your Resources/Components/etc, you can work around it by converting {{code language="none"}}Components/**/*/etc/**{{/code}} to {{code language="none"}}Components/*{{/code}}, same w/ Resources and WebServerResources. Alternatively you can use a recent nightly build of WOLips where this bug has been fixed.
73 2) Couple images have backgrounds that should not
74 3) Outline view in component editor is not right
75 4) AutoOpenInBrowser doesn't work unless you override Application._isSupportedDevelopmentPlatform to return true
Gavin Eadie 17.1 76
77 I THINK that was it, but there might have been a couple other misc items .. I'll have to go back through and doublecheck.