Alternative install for macOS

[muellnes]

Our macOS environment is restricted from using home-brew.
Is there an alternative way to install danger-kotlin on macOS?

[f-meloni]

Hey 👋🏻
Have you tried

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danger/kotlin/master/scripts/install.sh)
source ~/.bash_profile

?

[muellnes]

Whoosh thanks for your quick response. This is another issue, we do not have administrator access on most of the machines, developers are assigned to the _developer group

sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership <username>

which is usually enough for us.

So the install.sh way did not sadly work out as expected:

checkdir error:  cannot create /usr/local/kotlinc
                 Permission denied

[f-meloni]

🤔

https://github.com/danger/kotlin/blob/master/scripts/install.sh#L33-L48
if you install koltinc and gradle yourself it shouldn't try to install those during the script, so that might avoid that issue

[muellnes]

Perfect I will verify, why it could not find it in the path.

BTW: Did you thought about using ~/.profile instead of the shell specific profile for initialisation?

[bartwell]

Also faced with the problem. In my case I do the next steps to install kotlin-danger on Mac OS:

1. git clone https://github.com/danger/kotlin.git --branch 1.2.0 --depth 1 _danger-kotlin
2. cd _danger-kotlin
3. Find a directory with JDK 17 with command /usr/libexec/java_home -v 17
4. Open to edit Makefile
5. Add in the top of Make file line like export JAVA_HOME=/path/from/step3
6. Run make install

During the installation I also faced with two another troubles:

1. It was unable to install libffi. So I just installed it manually with command brew install libffi
2. I got an error ld: unknown options: -sdk-version. As I know this error occurs on Mac OS after update xCode to version 15. To fix it I found the executable() string in file danger-kotlin/build.gradle.kts and replace it with the code below:

executable {
     linkerOpts += "-ld64"
}