Answers to: Is there anyway to run Ivy Designer 7.0 on MacOS?

Answer by Reguel Wermelinger

Reguel Wermelinger — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:39:21 -0500

There is an official MAC Designer BETA version available. But only for 7.3 and newer: https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/3664/official-mac-designer-beta-experience

Maintainers of older versions should stick to the Docker approach provided by @xuanvinh see https://github.com/cavoirom/axonivy-designer

Comment by vinh_ on odursun's answer

vinh_ — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:11:15 -0500

I created a docker compose service to run AxonIvy Designer easier on MacOS, you could take look and also leave feedback if you see something need to imrpove: https://github.com/cavoirom/axonivy-designer

Comment by Reguel Wermelinger on odursun's answer

Reguel Wermelinger — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:02:41 -0500

we build the product for the mac internally. But due to its obscure java integration and the coca ui it performs weakly and causes many issues. So its not really usable even though our code is platform independent. It is not impossible to support it. But we can only share this product if it meets the quality that you need for using it on a daily basis. So its definitively a bigger investment if mac designer must be supported...

Comment by Reguel Wermelinger on vinh_'s answer

Reguel Wermelinger — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:45:34 -0400

I've built the 6.3 designer for Linux. You can use it. But I expect problems with it, that only exists in this version. It could also be that there are side effects -because this version was built on my dev machine. We can not provide any support for it. You should really enforce the update of your projects to the 7.0 LTS instead of using this version. But while you are waiting for the migration - this RC might makes developers daily life less painful. https://download.axonivy.com/6.3.0/AxonIvyDesigner6.3.0.52421_UnofficialRC_Linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz

Comment by Reguel Wermelinger on vinh_'s answer

Reguel Wermelinger — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 03:08:32 -0400

cool idea. I like that approach! As far as I see we have no archived/built product of the 6.3 Linux Designer. So we would have to build them it again. And I think you will run into quality problems... But I'll spend the next coffee break to build this outdated version - maybe I'm lucky :-)

Answer by vinh_

vinh_ — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:32:52 -0400

I found a work around by running Ivy Designer Linux version through Docker, here is what I have done:

Install Docker for Mac

Install XQuartz (a X11 System support for MacOS)

we need XQuartz to run GUI Application through Docker

Configure XQuartz:

XQuartz > Preferences.. > Security: Check "Authenticate connections" and "Allow connections from network clients"

Build a docker image to run Ivy Designer

Dockerfile

FROM mlaccetti/docker-oracle-java8-ubuntu-16.04
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install openjfx libswt-gtk-4-jni libswt-gtk-4-java
RUN useradd -m -s /bin/bash developer
RUN mkdir /opt/AxonIvyDesigner
RUN chown developer:developer -R /opt/AxonIvyDesigner
USER developer
ENV PATH=$PATH:/srv/java/jdk/bin
WORKDIR /opt/AxonIvyDesigner
ENTRYPOINT exec "/opt/AxonIvyDesigner/Axon.ivy Designer"

Build axon-ivy-designer:generic docker image (execute command in the same folder with Dockerfile)

docker build -t axon-ivy-designer:generic .

(now you have docker image named: axon-ivy-designer:generic)

You should download the Ivy Designer Linux version from (and extract to a folder):

https://developer.axonivy.com/download

Allow Docker container connect to XQuartz

Command:

xhost + `ipconfig getifaddr en0`

Run Ivy Designer

Command:

docker run -e DISPLAY=`ipconfig getifaddr en0`:0 -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v path-to-designer:/opt/AxonIvyDesigner -v path-to-workspace:/tmp/workspace -p 8081:8081 --name ivy-designer-version-generic --rm axon-ivy-designer:generic

(replace path-to-designner, path-to-workspace, version as your need)

Congratulations! You are running Linux version of Ivy Designer on MacOS.

My wish is Ivy Team can provide developer access to older Axon Ivy Desinger Linux version. We now only can get the latest Ivy Designer 7.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/XyC1K