Setup Groovy in Mac OS X

Question

I have downloaded groovy-binary-1.7.10.zip, unzipped @ /Users/sarbbottam/SW Developments/groovy-1.7.10 and navigated to /Users/sarbbottam/SW Developments/groovy-1.7.10/bin. I tried to execute ./groovysh; however, I got the below error.

Sarbbottam-Bandyopadhyays-MacBook-Pro:bin sarbbottam$ ./groovysh
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Developments/groovy-1/7/10/bin/groovy/icns
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Developments.groovy-1.7.10.bin.groovy.icns
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Sarbbottam-Bandyopadhyays-MacBook-Pro:bin sarbbottam$

Do you have any suggestion?

Answer 1

Try renaming your SW Developments folder to one word (with no spaces or an underscore).

Looks like the space is causing a problem in loading the library.

Answer 2

You need to install groovy in a path without spaces in it - this would be the easiest solution.

Otherwise you need to edit almost all of the groovy scripts in the bin folder - each time you upgrade too.

Answer 3

It can also be achieved by using the following:

Unpack the archive and move it to /usr/share

$cd /usr/share
$sudo chown -R root:wheel groovy-1.7.10/
$sudo chmod 0755 groovy-1.7.10/bin/*
$sudo ln -s groovy-1.7.10 groovy
$cd /usr/local/bin
$ln -s /usr/share/groovy/bin/groovy groovy
$ln -s /usr/share/groovy/bin/groovyc groovyc

There is no need to alter the $PATH. /usr/local/bin is already in $PATH. So just make a symbolic link of /usr/share/groovy/bin/groovy and /usr/share/groovy/bin/groovyc in /usr/local/bin.

Regards,