Compiling a Web Development Environment on Mac OS X

This guide is for compiling a web development environment in OS X. There are easier and faster methods to set up a development environment — such as Homebrew, MacPorts, Fink — but none provide absolute control. These instructions are for OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

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
  • Autoconf
  • 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 2.1.x
    • OpenSSL
    • Ruby
  • Gems
    • 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.