Martin Morissette

Installing Java3D 1.5 on Mac OS X

So after doing this procedure many times on many different Macs, I've decided to write a quick HOWTO guide for both myself and everyone else out there that wants to install Java3D 1.5 on a Mac OS 10.4 computer.

Java3D is now built on top of the Java OpenGL Bindings (JOGL) and therefore has no more native calls. All the native calls are in JOGL and that module is being actively maintained by the developers for all platforms including Mac OS X!

1. Download Java3D 1.5's zip binaries (Zip binaries for manual installation) for Mac OS X from java.net.
2. Extract the binaries zip file and also extract the contained j3d-jre.zip file.
3. Replace the j3dcore.jar and j3dutils.jar and vecmath.jar in /System/Library/Java/Extensions/ with the ones found in the lib/ext folder extracted from the j3d-jre.zip file.
4. Download the latest JOGL build from Java.net.
5. Remove the old Java3D native libs (libJ3D.jnilib, libJ3DAudio.jnlib, libJ3DUtils.jnilib) from /System/Library/Java/Extensions/
6. Copy the content of the lib folder contained in the zip file to /System/Library/Java/Extensions/ (gluegen-rt.jar, jogl.jar, libgluegen-rt.jnilib, libjogl_awt.jnilib, libjogl_cg.jnilib, libjogl.jnilib)
7. Try your setup by launching any of the Web Start Demos from the Java3D website

Posted at 04:29PM Oct 23, 2007 by mart in Personal  |  Comments[0]