Compiling a Web Development Environment on Mac OS X

This guide is for compiling a web development environment in OS X. There are easier methods (and faster) to set up a development environment — such as Homebrew, MacPorts, Fink — but none provide the control I was looking for. These instructions were made for Mountain Lion but should be fairly similar for previous versions of OS X.

Start with the Getting Started section, then proceed with installing your desired packages. Some packages need to be installed in a certain order to satisfy dependencies. Each package lists its dependencies at the beginning of the instructions.

Getting Started

• Command Line Tools
• Create the Folder Structure

Source Code Management

• Git

Data Stores

• MySQL
  • CMake
  • MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• SQLite
• Memcached
  • Libevent
  • Memcached
• Redis

PHP served by Apache

• Apache
  • PCRE
  • Apache
• PHP
  • LibJPEG
  • LibPNG
  • LibMCrypt
  • FreeType
  • PHP
    • Autoconf
    • Xdebug
    • MySQL for PHP
    • PostgreSQL for PHP
    • MongoDB for PHP
    • SQLite for PHP

Ruby served by Pow

• Pow
• Ruby
  • rbenv
    • rbenv-gem-rehash
  • Ruby 1.9.3
    • LibYAML
    • Ruby
  • Ruby 2
    • OpenSSL
    • Ruby
  • Ruby (all versions)
    • RubyGems
    • Bundler
    • Ruby on Rails
    • MySQL for Ruby
    • PostgreSQL for Ruby
    • MongoDB for Ruby
    • SQLite for Ruby

Node.js

• Node.js
  • Grunt
  • Bower

Image Processing

• GraphicsMagick
  • LibJPEG
  • LibPNG
  • LibTIFF
  • GraphicsMagick

Warning: Remember that these instructions are for creating a development environment and therefore security is not considered. For a production system, please refer to each product's respective documentation on how to properly secure each service.