[Cs-studio-users] CSS on the Mac

[Sven T. <bio...@me...>]

Dear all,

I hope I am sending this to the right audience.

I have downloaded CSS-NSLSII-macosx-3.2.16.zip from the sourceforge site and tried to run it on my Mac with Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). But the tool does not seem to start properly. It shows a splash screen, then a popup which says an error has occurred, see logfile xxx. I checked that logfile, and it looks like this:

!SESSION 2014-05-22 16:01:36.377 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.6.0_65
java.vendor=Apple Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86, WS=cocoa, NL=de_DE
Framework arguments:  - -keyring /Users/sven/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation
Command-line arguments:  -os macosx -ws cocoa -arch x86 - -keyring /Users/sven/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2 0 2014-05-22 16:01:37.039
!MESSAGE One or more bundles are not resolved because the following root constraints are not resolved:
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2 0 2014-05-22 16:01:37.039
!MESSAGE Bundle reference:file:plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench_3.7.1.v20120104-1859.jar was not resolved.
!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.ui.workbench 2 0 2014-05-22 16:01:37.039
!MESSAGE Missing required bundle org.eclipse.swt_[3.5.0,4.0.0).
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2 0 2014-05-22 16:01:37.039
!MESSAGE Bundle reference:file:plugins/org.eclipse.jface_3.7.0.v20110928-1505.jar was not resolved.
!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.jface 2 0 2014-05-22 16:01:37.039
!MESSAGE Missing required bundle org.eclipse.swt_[3.6.0,4.0.0).

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... lots of other "Missing required bundle" messages follow.

Why does it not find those jar files? They are all in the plugins folder (aren't they?).
Do I need to have Eclipse installed? It looks like some Eclipse jar files are distributed with CSS so I hope Eclipse itself does not need to be installed. I only want to run CSS, not develop for it.

Then I created a shell script to try starting CSS with a java command. The site http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/css/issues.html helped me a bit. But this script produced other CSS errors. I set my JAVA_HOME to jre-1.7 (instead of 1.6 from the system), at least the script came a bit further but still the application failed. Finally I gave up.
Ok maybe here is a difference because I downloaded the nsls build, and the website above refers to the SNS build.

It would be nice if CSS could run out of the box. I am a software dev but with downloaded software I expect it to work right away, without having to fiddle with paths and jar files.
Could anyone post a shell script that successfully launches CSS on the Mac? That would be appreciated, as well as any other useful hint.

Best regards,
Sven