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Building Tomcat from source on MacOS can require some additional work, especially if you want to build all of the optional items such as libtcnative.

== Building Tomcat==

Building Tomcat itself is fairly straightforward. Simply download the source distribution of Tomcat and follow the indtructions in the BUILDING.txt file bundled with the distribution.

Briefly, you'll need:

  1. The Tomcat source tarball (the ZIP file is fine, but we're on UNIX, so the tarball is more natural)
  2. A Java Development Kit, available from Java.net
  3. Apache ant, available from the Apache ant downloads page

Once you have all that,

ant deploy

You may have to set your JAVA_HOME environment variable and/or specify the full path to your ant binary.

Building libtcnative

Building libtcnative it fairly straightforward as well, but you will need a number of prerequisites that are not terribly obvious as to how to get them.

  1. Xcode command-line tools, available from Apple's developer tools download site. Make sure you get the proper version for your XCode version (if you have XCode already installed) and your OS version (10.x)

  2. Apache Portal Runtime (APR), available either directly from Apache (APR downloads) or by using [https://brew.sh/] (brew install apr)
    1. (Optional) OpenSSL 1.1.1 (latest at the time of this writing), available either directly from OpenSSL ([OpenSSL Downloads]) or by using [brew|] ({{{brew install openssl1

Using OpenSSL

If using OpenSSL:

./configure --with-ssl=[path to OpenSSL] --with-apr=[path to APR] --with-java-home=[your java home]

For example:

./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1 --with-apr=/usr/local/Cellar/apr/1.6.5 --with-java-home=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_181.jdk/Contents/Home

Without OpenSSL (LibreSSL)

If not using OpenSSL:

./configure --with-ssl=yes --with-apr=[path to APR] --with-java-home=[your java home]

./configure --with-ssl=yes --with-apr=/usr/local/Cellar/apr/1.6.5 --with-java-home=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_181.jdk/Contents/Home

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