The CouchDB installation instructions recommend using DarwinPorts for its dependencies. There is also a pre-built binary. If for one reason or another you don’t want to do either of those, here’s how to do it ‘by hand’.
install gettext
(Assuming libxml is installed like this)
./configure \
--with-libxml2-prefix=/usr/local/libxml2-2.7.0
make
sudo make install
install Locale::gettext
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'shell' cpan> install Locale::gettext
install help2man
curl http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/textproc/help2man/files/patch-Makefile.in \
> patch-Makefile.in
patch -p0 < patch-Makefile.in
./configure
make
sudo make install
install ICU4C 4.x
http://site.icu-project.org/ cd source chmod +x runConfigureICU configure install-sh ./runConfigureICU MacOSX make sudo make install
install spidermonkey
(based on linux instructions, obsolete for 1.8.x and beyond)
cd src
make BUILD_OPT=1 -f Makefile.ref
mkdir -p /usr/include/smjs/
cp *.{h,tbl} /usr/include/smjs/
cd Darwin_OPT.OBJ/
cp *.h /usr/include/smjs/
mkdir -p /usr/local/{bin,lib}/
cp js /usr/local/bin/
cp libjs.dylib /usr/local/lib/
install erlang
./configure make sudo make install
install latest CouchDB
(should also work with a downloaded source distribution)
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk
cd trunk
./boostrap
./configure \
--with-js-include=/usr/include/smjs \
--with-js-lib=/usr/local/lib
make
sudo make install
Run CouchDB
couchdb & open http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/browse/index.html
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