About

This package provides a WebObjects™4.5-like environment for Mac OS X (with some support for WO5 additions).

It includes modified versions of the following GNUstep components:

GNUstepBase Additions Framework
GDL2 EOControl Framework
GDL2 EOAccess Framework
GDL2 SQLite Adaptor (PostgreSQL adaptor not ready)
GNUstepWeb Frameworks
GNUstepWeb Examples (Xcode project included for "hello" app only)
GNUstepWeb Apache2 Adaptor (Mac OS 10.5 only)

It also includes an Xcode template for building an application using the WebObjects-compatible variants of the GSWeb frameworks.

This is work in progress (standard disclaimers apply). Currently it is enough to run my simple SQLite-based web application that I ported over from WO5. I have run this application under both Mac OS (PowerPC) 10.4.11 and 10.5.2. The build is Universal but other OS versions are untested. Mac OS 10.3 and earlier are not supported by the build.

Only 32-bit programs are supported, as GNUstep does not support the 64-bit Apple runtime.

For more information about GNUstep, see http://www.gnustep.org/.

Download

Mac OS 10.5 Installer Package [3.2MB]
Mac OS 10.4 Installer Package (zipped) [3.1MB]
Source code archive [12MB]

Philip Mötteli previously made available binary installers for Mac OS 10.3.

Installation

Install the installer package. Note: The 10.5 package allows installation into your home directory, but this has not been tested and will not work correctly when the Apache2 adaptor is installed (read: Don't try this).

Files will be installed into:

/Library/Frameworks/
/Library/GDL2 Adaptors/
/Developer/Examples/GSWeb/
/Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates/ (if present - Mac OS 10.5 only - if Xcode 2.5 is installed on Mac OS 10.4, a symlink will be created in this directory pointing to the path below)
/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Project Templates/ (if present - Mac OS 10.4 only)
/etc/apache2/other/ (Mac OS 10.5 only)
/usr/libexec/apache2/ (Mac OS 10.5 only)

If you installed the Apache2 adaptor while Apache is running, issue the command sudo apachectl restart to enable the adaptor.

Uninstallation

On Mac OS 10.4 systems, you must manually remove the files installed into the directories listed above, as well as the package receipts installed in /Library/Receipts. Note that you can re-install this package over a previous installation without first uninstalling.

To uninstall on Mac OS 10.5:

sudo pkgutil --force --regexp --unlink sw.greendome. --forget sw.greendome.

          sudo rm /etc/apache2/other/gsw.conf

          sudo mv /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.bak /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

          sudo apachectl restart

(actually installs all packages from me—currently this is the only one)

Contact

tmcintos@avalon.net

WebObjects is a trademark of Apple Inc.

Last update: Mar 15, 2008