Building Apache Axis2/C on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

this should work on other mountain lion versions as well, but i have not tested it. first of all, let’s install a set of dependencies required for the build process.

the easiest way (at least for me) was to install them through macports .

note: you need to install xcode and the xcode command lilne tools for macports to work. xcode is a (very) large download. so, it will take some time to install. but, an advantage is many tools ask you to install xcode since it brings in a lot of useful dependencies useful for dev. provided by apple itself. so, you’ll need it anyway if you’re planning to do some c development

after installing macports, you need to install automake, autoconf, libtool, libxml2 and pkgconfig. type in the following command:

sudo port install automake autoconf libtool libxml2 pkgconfig

now, we are set to build the source. check it out using the following command:

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/axis/axis2/c/core/trunk axis2-c-trunk

this will checkout the source code the a directory named axis2-c-trunk. now, we need to apply this patch that fixes a constants issue . download it and put it inside the directory axis2-c-trunk. now execute the following commands to patch the source:

cd axis2-c-trunk
 
patch -p0 < unavailable_constants_macosx_fix.patch

now, you are ready to build the source. just execute the build.sh with the following command:

./build.sh

that should create a successful build in the axis2-c-trunk/deploy directory. if it didn’t you probably would need this patch as well . patch your source the same way as above, and try running the build script again:

patch -p0 < mac_os_build_fix.patch
./build.sh