SIRXS for Mac OS X

This version of SIRXS has been compiled for Intel chipped MacIntoshes.

It was compiled and tested on Intel Mac OS X version 10.4.8.


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X11
This version needs to run under X11. X11 is an optional package for Mac OS X and 
should be installable from you Mac OS CD or you can download the package from 
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11formacosx.html

You can run sirbatch, sirsqls, sirsqlb, pqlserver and master without X11.

This beta version does not have an installation program. To install you need gunzip 
the download (sirxsmac.tar.gz) and extract the tar to the directory where you want 
the sirxs directory to be placed.

To run sir you need to start the X11 system and then run sir from within that. You 
could add SIR to the X11 applications menu or use an applescript to make this 
simpler for end users. an example script to start sir when an associated file is 
opened might b :
on open this_item
                              tell application "Finder"
                                                            launch application "X11"
                                                            set theFile to POSIX path of (this_item as string)
                                                            set theDir to theFile
                                                            set x to the length of theDir
                                                            try
                                                                                          repeat until (theDir as text) ends with "/"
                                                                                                                        set theDir to characters 1 thru x of theDir as text
                                                                                                                        set x to x - 1
                                                                                          end repeat
                                                            on error
                                                                                          set theDir to "."
                                                            end try
                                                            set theCommand to "export DISPLAY=':0.0'; source ~/.sirxs;"
                                                            set theCommand to theCommand & " cd " & theDir
                                                            set theCommand to theCommand & ";sir "
                                                            set theCommand to theCommand & "  \\\"" & theFile & "\\\""
                                                            set theCommand to theCommand & "> /dev/null 2>&1 &"
                                                            do shell script theCommand
                              end tell
end open



The environment variable SIRDIR needs to be set to the location of the sir 
executables and the PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables need 
to include the sir directory. In the example above this has been done by executing a 
shell script in the user's home directory (.sirxs):

export SIRDIR=/Users/david/sirxs/beta
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:$SIRDIR
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SIRDIR

You can use external text editors from SIR but note that if you use a native Mac 
editor then you need to close the editor application (not just the document) before 
control is returned to sir.

To use Safari as your html viewer, set the HTML Viewer in the Settings / preferences 
to "open -a Safari %file". Similarly, with FireFox "open -a FireFox %file".


Mac OS mountain Lion.
You are prompted when starting SIR to install Xquartz and then logout and in again.
When you restart SIR it asks you to find X11.app at which point you have to browse to
Applications/Utilities folder and choose Xquartz.