One of my blogs needed Apache HTTPD 2.4.x on Mac but quickly realized that the binaries are available only for Netware and Win32. Even the build instructions were only for RPM-based systems. So I downloaded the source code and started building it.

Complete compile instructions are explained here. However there were some issues on Mavericks and so decided to document it.

Let’s go!

1. Download the source bundle and unzip:
   
   tar xzvf ~/Downloads/httpd-2.4.10.tar.bz2

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   tar xzvf ~/Downloads/httpd-2.4.10.tar.bz2

2. Source code comes with INSTALL instructions and per that the following should’ve worked:
   
   ./configure --prefix=PREFIX make make install PREFIX/bin/apachectl start

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   ./configure --prefix=PREFIX make make install PREFIX/bin/apachectl start

   
   So gave the command
   
   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

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   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

   
   and got the first error:
   
   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2</strong> checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library... configure: checking for APR... yes setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc" setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E" setting CFLAGS to " " setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK" setting LDFLAGS to " " configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library... configure: checking for APR-util... yes checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details

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   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2</strong> checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library... configure: checking for APR... yes   setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"   setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"   setting CFLAGS to " "   setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"   setting LDFLAGS to " " configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library... configure: checking for APR-util... yes checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details

3. Moved past “checking whether the C compiler works… no” error by following instructions on stackoverflow #13587001.In short, do the following for Mavericks
   
   sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain

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   sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain

4. Issued the command to compile the server again and got the error as shown:
   
   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2</strong> checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library... configure: checking for APR... yes setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc" setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E" setting CFLAGS to " " setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK" setting LDFLAGS to " " configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library... configure: checking for APR-util... yes checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc accepts -g... yes checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C99... none needed checking for pcre-config... false configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required and available from http://pcre.org/

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   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2</strong> checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library... configure: checking for APR... yes   setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"   setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"   setting CFLAGS to " "   setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"   setting LDFLAGS to " " configure: configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library... configure: checking for APR-util... yes checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc accepts -g... yes checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C99... none needed checking for pcre-config... false configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required and available from http://pcre.org/

   
   This was resolved using stackoverflow #10663180. In short:
   1. Download PCRE as:
      
      curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.33.zip

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      curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.33.zip

   2. Compile and install as:
      
      ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre make sudo make install

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      ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre make sudo make install

   The compilation output is shown here.

5. Compile HTTPD source again as:
   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --with-pcre=/usr/local/pcre</strong> checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 configure: . . . creating server/Makefile creating support/Makefile creating test/Makefile config.status: creating docs/conf/httpd.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-default.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-info.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/proxy-html.conf config.status: creating include/ap_config_layout.h config.status: creating support/apxs config.status: creating support/apachectl config.status: creating support/dbmmanage config.status: creating support/envvars-std config.status: creating support/log_server_status config.status: creating support/logresolve.pl config.status: creating support/phf_abuse_log.cgi config.status: creating support/split-logfile config.status: creating build/rules.mk config.status: creating build/pkg/pkginfo config.status: creating build/config_vars.sh config.status: creating include/ap_config_auto.h config.status: executing default commands

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   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --with-pcre=/usr/local/pcre</strong> checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 configure: . . . creating server/Makefile creating support/Makefile creating test/Makefile config.status: creating docs/conf/httpd.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-default.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-info.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/proxy-html.conf config.status: creating include/ap_config_layout.h config.status: creating support/apxs config.status: creating support/apachectl config.status: creating support/dbmmanage config.status: creating support/envvars-std config.status: creating support/log_server_status config.status: creating support/logresolve.pl config.status: creating support/phf_abuse_log.cgi config.status: creating support/split-logfile config.status: creating build/rules.mk config.status: creating build/pkg/pkginfo config.status: creating build/config_vars.sh config.status: creating include/ap_config_auto.h config.status: executing default commands

   Complete output of this configuration is here.

6. Now issue the command make:
   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>make</strong> Making all in srclib Making all in os Making all in unix /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers -prefer-non-pic -static -c unixd.c &amp;&amp; touch unixd.lo /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -o libos.la -static unixd.lo Making all in server Making all in mpm Making all in worker . . . warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64) /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers -prefer-pic -c mod_rewrite.c &amp;&amp; touch mod_rewrite.slo /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -o mod_rewrite.la -rpath /usr/local/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version mod_rewrite.lo warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)

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   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>make</strong> Making all in srclib Making all in os Making all in unix /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc        -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK     -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers  -prefer-non-pic -static -c unixd.c &amp;&amp; touch unixd.lo /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc           -o libos.la -static  unixd.lo   Making all in server Making all in mpm Making all in worker . . . warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64) /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc        -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK     -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers -prefer-pic -c mod_rewrite.c &amp;&amp; touch mod_rewrite.slo /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc             -o mod_rewrite.la -rpath /usr/local/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version  mod_rewrite.lo warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)

   Complete output of the command is shown here.

7. Finally install Apache2 as:
   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>sudo make install</strong> Password: Making install in srclib Making install in os Making install in unix Making install in server Making install in mpm Making install in worker mkdir /usr/local/apache2 mkdir /usr/local/apache2/modules Making install in modules . . . Installing man pages and online manual mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man1 mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man8 mkdir /usr/local/apache2/manual

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   httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>sudo make install</strong> Password: Making install in srclib Making install in os Making install in unix Making install in server Making install in mpm Making install in worker mkdir /usr/local/apache2 mkdir /usr/local/apache2/modules Making install in modules . . . Installing man pages and online manual mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man1 mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man8 mkdir /usr/local/apache2/manual

   Complete output of this command is shown here.

Version for HTTPD can be checked as:

Server can be started as:

Stopped as:

Restarted as:

Enjoy!