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This document describes how to install a binary distribution of Groovy.
For those familiar with tools like Ant or Maven these steps will be very familiar.
- download a binary distribution of Groovy and unpack thedistribution into some file on your local file system.
- set your _GROOVY_HOME_ environment variable to the directory you unpackedthe distribution
- add _GROOVY_HOME/bin_ to your _PATH_ environment variable.
- set your _JAVA_HOME_ environment variable to point to your JDK. On OS X this is /Library/Java/Home, on other unixes its often /usr/java etc.
- you should now have Groovy installed properly. You can test this by typing the following in a command shell...
Which should create an interactive groovy shell where you can type Groovy statements. Or to run the Swing interactive console type
To run a specific groovy script type
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