September 26, 2007

Building CouchDB on OS X

Update: Congrats to the CouchDB team on some major work to the build system! With the help of some folks in #couchdb I got the new build installed on OS X.

  1. Install MacPorts
  2. Run the following:
    3. sudo port install erlang
sudo port install icu
sudo port install subversion
sudo port install automake
export PATH="/opt/local/bin:$PATH"    # Ensures MacPorts automake gets used rather the OS X version
svn co http://couchdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk couchdb
cd couchdb
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/opt/local
make
sudo make install
sudo couchdb

    This has been verified on OS 10.4.10 with MacPorts 1.520 and CouchDB revision 320. Feel free to email me and I’ll try to help as much as I can.