From c15e51ffb1312b3407fac1f6fd991a8f69cf96ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Shaw Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 14:31:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add information about installing dev environment on OS X --- docs/content/2.download/default.yml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/2.download/default.yml b/docs/content/2.download/default.yml index 7834ce72..5acf6bb4 100644 --- a/docs/content/2.download/default.yml +++ b/docs/content/2.download/default.yml @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ body: likely already installed. I have no idea how to get these installed on OS X, you're on your own there. + On OS X, these are all included in Apple's command line tools, which + can be installed from [Xcode](developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/). + However, you may find that you need a newer version of Bison than the one provided + by Apple. This can be found in [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) + or [MacPorts](http://macports.org/). + `flex` and `bison` are used to generate the lexer and parser for jq, and some python scripts generate the UTF8 encoding tables needed for JSON parsing.