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

I made a simple list about jzmq building for MacOS.

1. Install brew

   https://brew.sh

2. Install tools for jzmq building

   brew install autoconf
   
   brew install automake
   
   brew install libtool
   
   brew install pkg-config
   
   brew install [email protected]
   

3. Download jzmq source

   https://github.com/zeromq/jzmq source download to ~/somewhere/jzmq

4. Add symbolic link to /usr/local/include

   cd /usr/local/include
   
   ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq\@3.2/3.2.5/include/zmq.h
   
   ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq\@3.2/3.2.5/include/zmq_utils.h 
   

5. Add symbolic linke to /usr/local/lib

   cd /usr/local/lib
   
   ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq\@3.2/3.2.5/lib/libzmq.3.dylib
   
   ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq\@3.2/3.2.5/lib/libzmq.a
   
   ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq\@3.2/3.2.5/lib/libmq.dylib
   
   ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/zeromq\@3.2/3.2.5/lib/pkgconfig/
   

6. Build jzmq-jni

   cd ~/somewhere/jzmq
   
   cd jzmq-jni
   
   
   ./autogen.sh
   
   ./configure
   
   make
   
   make install
   

7. Add option to VM options

VM options -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib

Answer 2

With homebrew, the key is the warning message:

~/code/foss/java/jzmq$ brew install pkg-config                                                                                    
==> Downloading http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz
==> ./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.25 --with-pc-path=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig
==> make install
Warning: m4 macros were installed to "share/aclocal".
Homebrew does not append "/usr/local/share/aclocal"
to "/usr/share/aclocal/dirlist". If an autoconf script you use
requires these m4 macros, you'll need to add this path manually.
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.25: 8 files, 232K, built in 19 seconds

If you look at /usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.25/share/aclocal/, you will see:

$ ls /usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.25/share/aclocal/                                                            
pkg.m4

You need to append /usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.25/share/aclocal/ to /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist,like this:

$ cat   /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist                                                                           
/usr/local/share/aclocal
/usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.25/share/aclocal/

And then re-run autogen and the other steps.

Answer 3

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).

Answer 4

Trying to compile jzmq on Mac OS X, proved to be a bit of a headache. I followed the instructions above. I was still getting following error

syntax error near unexpected token `PKG_CHECK_MODULES

The instructions above tell you to copy the pkgk.m4 file into /usr/share/aclocal, but your directory might be different. Basically you need the dir that automake searches for macro definitions.

The _PKG_CHECK_MODULES_ macro is defined in the pkg.m4 file. This file must be installed in the appropriate directory, which is searched by automake. Somehow automake is installed twice on my OS X, one in /usr and another in /Developer/usr. Make sure you know which one it's using. Just do which automake. If yours in is /Developer/usr, then copy the pkg.m4 file to /Developer/usr/share/aclocal.

Answer 5

For me, the problem was that I didn't have pkg-config installed.

Answer 6

On Osx Mountain Lion I don't have the dirlist file as Phil Calçado said, but a simple symlink from /usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/[version]/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 to /usr/share/aclocal made the trick and now jzmq build fine.

Answer 7

I came here with the same question, and I don't feel this is answered. I also installed ZeroMQ and pkg-config via Homebrew. /usr/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 exists and comes from pkg-config 0.25. It seems that Homebrew has satisfied the requirements listed but it still fails.

Answer 8

A better solution is:

eval `brew --config | grep HOMEBREW_PREFIX | sed 's/: /=/'`
sudo bash -c 'echo '$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share/aclocal' >> `aclocal --print-ac-dir`/dirlist'

This will allow the version of aclocal that ships with OSX to find any macros installed by homebrew packages.