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Inserting a Couch into OS X

Mar 2010

(or how to install CouchDB on Mac OS X from source if you prefer)

First things first - your best (and simplest) bet is to use CouchDB X

Only come back here and do the boring thing if, like what happened to me, that doesn’t work on your machine

(oh and where you see make -j2 the 2 refers to the number of cores available, mine has 2 - adjust your command string to suit)

Install Spidermonkey

Download the Spidermonkey js source Untar/zip and navigate to the src subdirectory in Terminal

make -f Makefile.ref
sudo cp Darwin_DBG.OBJ/js /usr/local/bin
sudo mkdir -p /usr/include/smjs/
sudo cp *.{h,tbl} /usr/include/smjs/
cd Darwin_DBG.OBJ
sudo cp *.h /usr/include/smjs/
sudo cp js /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp libjs.dylib /usr/local/lib/

Install Erlang

Download the Erlang source Untar/zip and navigate to the relevant directory in Terminal

./configure --enable-hipe
make -j2
sudo make install

Install ICU

Download the ICU source (ICU tarball) Untar/zip and navigate to the source subdirectory in Terminal

chmod +x runConfigureICU configure install-sh
./runConfigureICU MacOSX
make -j2
sudo make install

Install CouchDB

Download the CouchDB source (CouchDB tarball) Untar/zip and navigate to the relevant directory in Terminal

./configure --with-js-include=/usr/include/smjs --with-js-lib=/usr/local/lib
make -j2
sudo make install

Configure

To be honest, I haven’t managed to get this bit to work so if (when?) all else fails just use this whenever you want to spin up couch:

sudo couchdb -b

Proper configuration for autoload should be something like:

sudo cp ~/src/org.apache.couchdb.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
sudo chown root /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist