Right now I'm stuck on naming the JAVA_HOME variable. I never saw a JDK for Mac, so I'm asking if there's a way to do it in Xcode, or isn't there? (Downloading Linux on a 56k is a last resort.)

From what I'm reading here, it seems like this is just the program I am looking for. Go figure I find this place dozens of game dev sites and 5 months later.... I learned its a scary place out there for beggining game developers, between hardcore C++ programmers obsessing over recreating 8-bit console knock-offs and $30,000+ game dev and multiplayer middleware packages... :angry:

Hi Berbwire,

DimensioneX Game Engine runs on top of TOMCAT which in turn works on top of Java.

First of all you need to get Java for Mac X.

Then you shouldbe able to find Tomcat compiled for Mac. I am sure there is, I have looked on the net one year ago and I found many hints of people which could successfully get it to run.

If you are able to install Tomcat, also, I am interested in some brief documentation about how you did it.


So, if you are still interested in trying, I am available to help you and give you some pointers to the right resources? Are you still interested?

Cris,
The Sun Java website is for Windows and Linux and Solaris and pretty much every operating system except Mac OS X because open source OS's don't bother or can't bundle Java with their software and a while back Microsoft lost a legal case where they just aren't allowed now to bundle a good version of Java with their Software. Every Mac system has everything it needs for Java pre-integrated and auto-updated built in, the problem is they do it in their own way that few know about. :D

Finding Tomcat wasn't a problem.

It may take awhile to figure out how to install Tomcat. Heck, I can't even find anyone who knows how to get Xcode to use programming libraries. It CAN be done, its just Xcode doesn't use a command prompt to do it, the answer is hidden deep within Xcode's graphic user interface.

I am still interested in trying. This style of game design of yours I find most interesting: this Myst/Riven style game played as a MMORPG.... Right now I have no game ideas in progress that could use this game style, but, seeing as I don't have a program to make my original ideas, I might come up with a few new ones for this style.

let me search the net for you.

Once I was about buying a Mac and I did some searches to check that DimX could run on it.

I am sure that it can be done, and it is not too complicated, too.

I will post here soon about the results of my search.

Hi, there are several articles about how to install Tomcat on Mac X.

See this:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/tomcat1.html

excerpt:

"Since Mac OS X comes standard with Java 2, installing Tomcat is a breeze."

Now I am sure this guy was an optimist, but if you follow instructions it surely can be done.

a number of other docs are available from Google by searching for

tomcat mac


remember, once you have Tomcat up and working on your Mac, you just unpack the dimx kit into webapps folder, and that's it.

Good luck!

thnx.