Setup of Development Environment for MacOS

Required software

Bazaar

TODO: how to install a version of Bazaar that is compatible with the bzr 2.2.2 on the server

Mono 2.x

• You can install the MonoDevelop Preview for Mac by downloading from http://monodevelop.com/Download, and just install it.
  • somehow the current Preview does not open all of the OpenPetra projects, but you need MonoDevelop for the mdtool that is used by our nant script to build OpenPetra. Building OpenPetra with nant works, creating a Postgresql database works, and starting the server and the client works. Most screens crash though, unfortunately.

NAnt

• MonoDevelop comes with a version of Nant. Unfortunately, that version is quite old (from 2007).

• We recommend to download the latest NAnt (eg. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nant/files/nant/0.90-alpha1/nant-0.90-alpha1-bin.zip/download) and extract to some place on your harddrive. You will have to update /usr/bin/nant and fix the path for NAnt.exe.

SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL

• I did not get the sqlite to work, so prefer Postgresql on Mac. Again, this was installed by downloading from a website, see http://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx

Get the source code

The source code is managed with Bazaar.

Follow the instructions at How to work with bazaar on the command line to get the source code.

Please have a look at the following page: Submitting patches and features!

Configuration of Development Environment

Please check your OpenPetra.build.config file and make sure the paths are all adjusted to your system and the version numbers in the paths are correct.

This OpenPetra.build.config file is also the file where you set the database you want to use. If you want to switch the database system later, see Setup_of_Development_environment#Use_another_database_system.

NAnt script

There is a central NAnt script that is able to generate a lot of code and is able to do all automated tasks in the OpenPetra project.

Please see OpenPetra NAnt script for details

If you want to switch from SQLite to PostgreSQL which we recommend for serious development, please follow the instructions at Setup_of_Development_environment#Use_another_database_system.

Problems we encountered

Problems during setup and installation on MacOS X Snow Leopard

• NAnt gives an error saying that mono isn't found. for NAnt to work, the Mono framework path must be exported to PKG_CONFIG_PATH:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/

It should be added to the .profile file so it's set on login.

• After updating MonoDevelop and the Mono framework, it would just crash before it could start, so it turns out it needs to be run as root.

• When trying to compile OpenPetra with NAnt, the file 'csharp/ICT/PetraTools/_bin/Debug/Ict.Tools.NAntTasks.dll' is not found, and in fact the directory 'csharp/ICT/PetraTools/_bin' is not created, but it should have been created by the script itself.
  • TIMO: it seems mbuild does not work at all. replace in OpenPetra.build.config the line mbuild with name="xbuild" value="xbuild"

Problems during setup and installation on MacOS X Leopard

BUILD FAILED

Failed to initialize the ‘Mono 3.5 Profile’ (mono-3.5) target framework. 

Function call failed.
Expression: ${not pkg-config::exists(’mono’)}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

‘pkg-config’ failed to start.

for the solution, see also http://jlinx.de/blog/?p=551:

export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/