How do I compile jzmq for ZeroMQ on OSX?

Question

Trying to follow the directions from: http://github.com/zeromq/jzmq

I installed pkg-config using Homebrew and then I run the following commands: ./autogen.sh ./configure

Answer 1

From the zeromq mailing list:

Building 0MQ from the development trunk on a UNIX style OS (Linux, OS X) requires that pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/) be installed. A regular source build of 0MQ does not require pkg-config. On Mac OS X, pkg-config does not come with the system, so when you try to do ./configure you may see errors like:

./configure: line 23913: syntax error near unexpected token `GLIB,'
./configure: line 23913: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0 gthread-2.0)'

To resolve this, you need to install the latest pkg-config:

tar xzf pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz 
cd pkg-config-0.25 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pkg-config-0.25 --datarootdir=/usr/share 
make 
sudo make install

Then you will need to put /usr/local/pkg-config-0.25/bin on your $PATH. It is important to include the "--datarootdir=/usr/share" option, which will install the pkg.m4 file in /usr/share/aclocal, where aclocal will be able to find it.

Then you can build 0MQ:

cd zeromq2 
./autogen.sh  # must do this again after installing pkg-config
./configure   # add other options here 
make 
sudo make install

Edited to reflect latest pkg-config version (0.25).