Installing ANTLR 3.0 on Mac OS X TigerEdit

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Having downloaded the ANTLR 3.0 distribution (antlr-3.0.tar.gz) from the ANTLR website, installation is straightforward.

tar xzvf antlr-3.0.tar.gz

# move expanded archive into position
sudo mv antlr-3.0 /usr/local/

# remove old symbolic link
cd /usr/local/
sudo rm -f antlr

# set up new symbolic link
sudo ln -s antlr-3.0 antlr

To actually use ANTLR the jars must be in your classpath:

export CLASSPATH="/usr/local/antlr/lib/antlr-3.0.jar"
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:/usr/local/antlr/lib/antlr-2.7.7.jar"
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:/usr/local/antlr/lib/antlr-runtime-3.0.jar"
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:/usr/local/antlr/lib/stringtemplate-3.0.jar"

These export statements can be added to your ~/.bash_profile if you plan on using ANTLR often.