View source for MIRC Installation on Macintosh

MIRC is running on Macintosh computers in multiple institutions, but the MIRC development team does not have Macintosh computers on which to test the installation process. These instructions for installing the MIRC site software on Mac OSX have been contributed by Mac users J. Kevin Smith and Allison Zwingenberger.

;Java
:Verify that your system has Java 5.5 installed.
:Java is located on the Macintosh hard drive in:
::<b>/system/library/frameworks/JavaVM.framework/versions</b>
:If you need to update to 5.5, use the autoupdater in:
::<b>system/preferences/autoupdate</b>

;JAI ImageIO 
:Download the Java Advanced Imaging ImageIO Tools from:
::<b>http://download.java.net/media/jai-imageio/builds/release/1_0_01/jai_imageio-1_0_01-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz</b>
:Unpack and place the files from the <b>lib</b> folder into <b>/System/Library/Java/Extensions</b>

;Tomcat
:Download the Tomcat 5.5 installer from <b>http://tomcat.apache.org</b>.
:Run the installer and put Tomcat in <b>username/</b>.

;Catalina.sh
:Open <b>/username/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/bin/catalina.sh</b> in a text editor.
:Paste the two lines below into the file just after the instruction section and then save the file.
<pre>
JAVA_OPTS='-Xms256m -Xmx512m'
JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home
</pre>

;Start Tomcat. 
:Go to <b>applications/utilities/terminal</b>.
:Enter:
<pre>
cd ~/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin
./startup.sh 
</pre>

;Test Tomcat
:Open a web browser and enter <b>http://127.0.0.1:8080</b>.
:If the Tomcat logo is displayed, Tomcat is running.

;Stop Tomcat
:Go to <b>applications/utilities/terminal</b>.
:Enter:
<pre>
cd ~/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin
./shutdown.sh
</pre>
:More information on Tomcat and Macintosh is available on the Apache wiki:
::<b>http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/TomcatOnMacOS</b>

;MIRC
:Download and run the MIRC site installer. 

;Adobe SVG
:To be able to annotate images, client machines must have an SVG viewer installed. 
:Firefox now has a native SVG viewer, so nothing else is required.
:Problems have been reported using the Adobe SVG viewer with Safari.