Shizzle

Lets say for instance you have installed PHP with MySQL support with macports:

sudo port install php5 +mysql5

But later on you decide you want to use SQLite, too, you’ll have to rebuild PHP with SQLite extensions, like this.

sudo port install php5 +mysql5 +sqlite

Now you have to deactivate the MySQL-only build and activate the one with SQLite bindings. I couldn’t find it anywhere in in the macports manual so here it goes.

Get a list of your current PHP5 builds with

$ sudo port activate php5
Password:
---> The following versions of php5 are currently installed:
---> php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx
---> php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx+mysql5 (active)
---> php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx+mysql5+sqlite
Error: port activate failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry.

Then copy and paste the currently activated port and use the deactivate command.

sudo port deactivate php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx+mysql5
---> Deactivating php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx+mysql5

Then copy and paste the one you would like to use and use the activate command:

sudo port activate php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx+mysql5+sqlite
---> Activating php5 @5.2.8_1+apache2+macosx+mysql5+sqlite

That’s it.

EDIT: It seems that miranda is again distributed as a .tgz archive, therefore revert back to the original instructions here.

This is little walk-through for installing the Miranda programming language on OS X. There are the original instructions here, but they things have changed a little since that document was written. Hence this little write-up.

Firstly, download the OS X tarball from the Miranda downloads page or the direct download link.

Open your OS X Terminal (search for it in Spotlight) and go to the directory the tarball was downloaded to.

Then type 

sudo tar xpf mira-2032-MacOSX.tar -C /

This installs bunch of files in your /usr directory, hence the required su access. That’s it. Just run

mira 

and off you go. If you know about a nice IDE or editor with syntax highlighting please post it in the comments.

Eclipse squashing lines

Originally uploaded by Lenniboy

I used to have terrible problems with Eclipse on my MacBook running OS X. Editor text was bouncing up and down and all my lines were squashing. Have a look at the photo if you think I’m crazy.

Finally I have managed to find out what has caused this behaviour: It is the font size, which was set to 9.5. I’m not sure if the small size or the .5 bit that is to blame but but as soon as I set it to 11pt everything was fine.

I’m happy I found this because I was very short of changing over to XCode.