Working with MacPorts on Mac OS X

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1 Installing MacPorts
- 1.1 Porticus, a GUI for MacPorts
2 Port variants
3 Useful ports
4 Troubleshooting
- 4.1 sqlite3 fails to build

[edit] Installing MacPorts

The current version of MacPorts is 1.6.0 - download the appropriate DMG file and install as usual. You'll need Xcode installed, which is on the Leopard DVD set if not already installed.

In your shell .profile two environment variables are changed:

 # Settings for MacPorts
 PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH
 MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/man

In my case, they were not set automatically so I added them after installing MacPorts.

[edit] Porticus, a GUI for MacPorts

Porticus is a free GUI for the MacPorts package manager. Highly recommended!

[edit] Port variants

Some packages can be built in several variations, for example PHP:

 # port variants  php5
 php5 has the variants:
     universal
     darwin_6
     darwin_7
     macosx
     apache: for Apple Apache
     apache2: for current Apache
     fastcgi: add fastcgi binary
     gmp: Add GNU MP functions
     imap: enable operation with IMAP protocol
     tidy: add Tidy support
     mssql: add support for MS-SQL server
     snmp: use Apple snmp
     macports_snmp: use MacPorts snmp
     mysql3: build MySQL 3 support
     mysql4: build MySQL 4 support
     mysql5: build MySQL 5 support
     oracle: Add Oracle oci8 database functions with the Oracle Instant Client
     postgresql: provide postgresql support
     sqlite: build sqlite support
     ipc: build IPC support
     pcntl: provide process control
     pear: add pear stuff
     sockets: Add socket communication functions

[edit] Useful ports

Usually, you'll want an uptodate webserver environment with database support. See Install Apache 2 and PHP 5 with MacPorts.

mysql5: the MySQL database server, version 5.x.

 port install mysql5

apache2: the Apache webserver, version 2.x. After installation, do not forget to activate the webserver on startup:

 port install apache2
 launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist

php5: the PHP interpreter. You'll at least want support for Apache 2, MySQL 5 and Pear:

 port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 +postgresql +sqlite +pear

If this is your first install, you might want

 cd /opt/local/apache2/modules
 /opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs -a -e -n "php5" libphp5.so

Copy /opt/local/etc/php.ini-dist to /opt/local/etc/php.ini

phpmyadmin: a web interface for MySQL administration. The dependency checker will install MySQL, PHP and various other ports for you.

[edit] Troubleshooting

[edit] sqlite3 fails to build

During installation of the Apache port, SQLite is built as a dependency. The build fails in alter.c:

 ./src/alter.c: In function 'renameTableFunc':
 ./src/alter.c:77: error: 'TK_SPACE' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:77: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 ./src/alter.c:77: error: for each function it appears in.)
 ./src/alter.c:79: error: 'TK_LP' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:79: error: 'TK_USING' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c: In function 'renameTriggerFunc':
 ./src/alter.c:135: error: 'TK_SPACE' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:148: error: 'TK_DOT' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:148: error: 'TK_ON' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:151: error: 'TK_WHEN' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:151: error: 'TK_FOR' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:151: error: 'TK_BEGIN' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c: In function 'reloadTableSchema':
 ./src/alter.c:246: error: 'OP_DropTrigger' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:251: error: 'OP_DropTable' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:256: error: 'OP_ParseSchema' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c: In function 'sqlite3AlterRenameTable':
 ./src/alter.c:366: error: 'OP_String8' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c:367: error: 'OP_VRename' undeclared (first use in this function)
 ./src/alter.c: In function 'sqlite3AlterFinishAddColumn':
 ./src/alter.c:479: error: 'TK_NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
 gnumake: *** [alter.lo] Error 1

Some searching on the Internet pointed me to a working solution:

 port install gmake
 port clean sqlite3
 port install sqlite3

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