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

The configure fails with:

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
./configure: line 15263: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./configure: line 15263: `    PKG_CHECK_MODULES('

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).