Introduction

Instead of downloading the Wonder binaries, working from the latest source code directly can have some advantages such as:

• Ability to browse the source code and learn from the wisdom and experience of the WO committers
• Put breakpoints in and step through Wonder source when debugging your projects
• Provide opportunities to submit patches to bugs you might find in Wonder
• Add logging statements in Wonder source so you can better understand what is going when tracking down hard to find bugs

Downloading Wonder Source from CVS

• Decide on a directory where you will maintain the latest Wonder source tree on your hard drive. I have a directory '~/WonderLatest' in my home folder.
• Open a terminal shell and navigate to the directory

  cd ~/WonderLatest
  

• Next perform initial checkout of Wonder source tree from CVS head using the following command. This creates a folder named Wonder

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wonder.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wonder co -P Wonder
  

Build and Install Wonder

• Follow the "Building with Ant" instructions in the BUILD.txt document in the Wonder directory

Concepts

This complete procedure results in you having

• a Wonder directory with the whole Wonder source tree (directories, projects, frameworks, example apps, miscellaneous, etc.) inside.
• The binary Wonder frameworks ("ant frameworks") will be installed in /Library/Frameworks.
• If you ran "ant applications", they will be installed in ...
• If you ran "ant examples", they will be installed in ...