Script for running JBuilder 2006 on Mac (Tiger)
Posted by admin, Fri Feb 10 09:15:56 UTC 2006
This is exciting. I tried to get this working off and on for months, but I didn’t really need it (been working in Ruby), so I wasn’t really working very hard on it.
Anyway. Today Paul Furbacher posted a script that almost lets you get JBuilder 2005 running on the new Intel Macs. His efforts inspired me, and I got back to working on a script (screw the launchers, wasted too much time on them) for JB2006.
It works, mostly. There are 3 problems I have noticed so far.- Workspace comes up mangled (MessagePane only). Reset to default works fine.
- Java source files come up with a “first and default” pane of “History”. This is seriously irritating.
- Strange CFMessage messages in the message pane when I run or debug.
- A machine to install JBuilder 2006 on (one that is officially supported)
- Download and install JDK 5 for your Mac
- Install JBuilder 2006 on another machine (I did Windows)
- Zip up the contents of your JBuilder2006 directory, excluding the jdk. (Note this should give you a zip file with stuff like the bin and lib directories in the root of the zip)
- Transfer the zip to your Mac
- Copy your old JBuilder 2005 for Mac install into a JBuilder2006 directory
- Remove the contents of the JBuilder2006/JBuilder.framework directory and replace with the contents of your zip file
- Copy the jbuilder2006.command script file (posted on news://borland.public.attachments) to your Mac
- Double click on the script file and see if it works.
