Compiling a Web Development Environment on macOS

The packages will be installed in /usr/local/mac-dev-env. This is different from previous versions of the guide so you may have to make some adjustments.

Create the necessary folders.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mac-dev-env
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/src
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/log
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Since macOS High Sierra, a security feature called System Integrity Protection prevents us from modifying the owner and/or group on /usr/local/.

Therefore, we modify the permissions of the sub-folders.

sudo chown -R $(whoami):staff /usr/local/bin
sudo chown -R $(whoami):staff /usr/local/mac-dev-env
sudo chown -R $(whoami):staff /usr/local/src
sudo chown -R $(whoami):staff /usr/local/var