I just copied the jbuilder directory from my sun (I figure it may work with a win or linux one too).

Next, follow these steps :

1) edit jbuilder/bin/jdk.config accordingly,

  #----jdk.config----#
  # Définir le chemin pour le JDK
  javapath /usr/bin/java
  # Ajouter les tools.jar
  addpath /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Classes/classes.jar
  vmparam -Xverify:none

The addpath is not important.

2) exec jbuilder from a terminal

3) enter your license

4) In the menu Tools:Configure JDK add the following paths :

  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Classes/classes.jar
  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Classes/i18n.jar
  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Classes/ui.jar

I just succeed in a full project recompile !

2001-Mar-29 2:02pm gyles19@visi.com

Actually, I believe you can use any of the distributions. Here is what I did. Note that I was using Foundation only.

Copied the lib folder from my Win2K machine to my Mac OS X machine (just a lowly iMac rev. A). Looking at the quoted text below, you may get better results starting with a *NIX installer.

Fired up MRJAppBuilder from the developer tools CD.

Set the Main classname to com.borland.jbuilder.JBuilder

Switched to the Java Properties tab and make the following changes:

  verify -> none
  gc.min -> 8M
  gc.max -> 128M

Switched to the Merge Files tab and added all the JAR files.

Choose a name and location for my app file (in this case /Applications/JBuilder.app) and created the application.

Voila! A double-clickable icon in the Finder to load JBuilder. Takes about 15MB of space.

However, your work is not done yet. I don't know if the Solaris/Linux installers do some of this for you, but I got a very "raw" JBuilder at this point. Next thing I needed to do was configure the JDK in Tools....Configure JDKs. On the Class tab I added classes.jar, i18n.jar, and ui.jar. I happened to use /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Classes as the folder.

Once I did this, I was able to compile a HelloWorld project.

Next thing I noticed is that the Design tab doesn't have any of the beans added so you will need to add them yourself. There may be a little bug where you can't actually install any beans until you have added a tab as a separate action. In either case, adding them is easy enough and most of the ones in Foundation are disabled anyway. ;)

JBuilder definately looks better in Metal than in Aqua at the moment, but the anti-aliased source code looks nice. :)

I'm also concerning about the socket 8888 command in the jbuilder.config file, but things seems to be running at the moment.
2001-Apr-03 2:32pm gyles19@visi.com