Cider Stopped Working in Mountain Lion: Solution

Glider (IDE)
#1

Hello All,

In case anyone has this problem Jo from the community has given us a solution:

  1. Installed CIDER again. The installer was not working. I had to change my MAC Security Preferences to ‘ALLOW APPLICATIONS DOWNLOADED FROm - ANYWHERE’
  2. Still not working . Digging a bit further I found that the JDK was not being recognized. I downloaded Java SE 7 from the Oracle Java website .
  3. Still not working . So I had to use MAC OS TERMINAL to first see where Java SE was installed on my MAC using the /usr/libexec/java_home command.
  4. Then I used the manual install mechanism , and used TERMINAL again with the command,
    /Applications/Cider\ Installer\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/executable --javahome /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home
  5. This time it installed. However CIDER still would not start . Looked like it was still not getting the JAVAHOME path
  6. Went to APPLICATIONS>UTILITIES>JAVA PREFERENCES and turned on JAVA ( looks like the MOUNTAIN LION install had somehow uninstalled Java or turned it off. In any case, I turned on Java again.
  7. CIDER now worked.

It seems that Java was uninstalled or maybe turned off by default.

Thanks,
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#2

Yes, installs of Mountain Lion are ‘clean’ in the sense that the OS parts don’t carry over anything you may have installed later into the OS like Java. You need to reinstall Java. The best way to do this is simply launch the Corona Simulator normally and Apple should prompt you asking you to install Java.

Don’t install the Java 7. It is not compatible with Google’s Java for Android. (This is partly what that big lawsuit with Google & Oracle was last month.)
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