Phalcon Developer Tools on Mac OS X
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These steps will guide you through the process of installing Phalcon Developer Tools for OS/X.

Prerequisites
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The Phalcon PHP extension is required to run Phalcon Tools. If you haven't installed it yet, please see the :doc:`Installation <install>` section for instructions.

Download
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You can download a cross platform package containing the developer tools from the `Download`_ section. You can also clone it from `Github`_.

Open the terminal application:

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Copy & Paste the commands below in your terminal:

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    git clone git://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools.git

Then enter the folder where the tools were cloned and execute ". ./phalcon.sh", (don't forget the dot at beginning of the command):

.. code-block:: bash

    cd phalcon-devtools/

    . ./phalcon.sh

In the terminal window, type the following commands to create a symbolic link to the phalcon.php script:

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    ln -s ~/phalcon-tools/phalcon.php ~/phalcon-tools/phalcon

    chmod +x ~/phalcon-tools/phalcon

Type the command "phalcon" and you will see something like this:

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Congratulations you now have Phalcon tools installed!

Related Guides
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* :doc:`Using Developer Tools <tools>`
* :doc:`Installation on Windows <wintools>`
* :doc:`Installation on Linux <linuxtools>`

.. _Download: http://phalconphp.com/download
.. _Github: https://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools