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Installation on Mac OS X

marcus at synchromedia dot co dot uk
12-Aug-2006 03:47


In addition to Andreas' compiler flag notes, you might like to try these.



-fast



Optimises for G5 with a whole bunch of other options rolled in (including -O3 and others, see gcc man pages for details). To make it work on late model G4s (MDD), do this:



-fast -mcpu=7450



I've found that PHP generates vast numbers of pointer signedness warnings, which you can suppress by adding:



-Wno-pointer-sign



If you're compiling with links to packages installed via Fink, you can also add:



-I/sw/include



If you stick these in your global environment file (/etc/profile, /etc/zshenv etc), everything you compile will use those settings, like this:



export CFLAGS='-fast -mcpu=7450 -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -DEAPI -Wno-pointer-sign -I/sw/include'

export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

mat at phpconsulting dot com
17-Jun-2005 10:50


There are Portfiles in the Darwinports that will let you build PHP and PHP5 and conduct the installation for you.  These are located at:


http://php.darwinports.com and http://php5.darwinports.com

andreas at fink dot org
18-Aug-2004 12:01


To build on MacOS X 10.3.5 set the environment variable CFLAGS in the following way (depending on your shell)



setenv CFLAGS "-DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -DEAPI -O3"



export CFLAGS="-DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -DEAPI -O3"



Then launch configure with the options:



./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man  ....



The -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 gets you over a problem in the DNS files because MacOS X has definitions for Bind9 and PHP expects Bind8 definitions. -DEAPI is needed if you build it for Apache 1.3.31. -O3 enables the gcc optimizer.



You can also add one of the following lines to your CFLAGS depending on the CPU you use to further improve speed:

-mcpu=G3 -mtune=G3

-mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4

-mcpu=G5 -mtune=G5

Rick
28-Oct-2003 06:12


under MacOS 10.3 if your compile fails





vi Makefile


find the dns.c entry


add the switch -DBIND_8_COMPAT


run make again

jack dash pinette at uiowa dot edu
24-Jan-2003 01:56


PHP 4.3.0 can easily be build on Mac OS X client; you don't need to download a binary.  The process is quite fast and painless.



See 

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/01/17/phpcookbook.html

for details.

php at radicalcomputingconcepts dot com
15-May-2002 04:35


10.1 with fink installed into /sw ,mysql installed from fink.

finally :

Apache/1.3.24 (Darwin) DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.2.1 mod_ssl/2.8.8 OpenSSL/0.9.6c configured



initial apache config:

./configure --prefix=/sw --enable-shared=max --enable-module=most --target=apache --with-layout=GNU

--enable-suexec --suexec-caller=www-data



then php config:

./configure --prefix=/sw --with-xml --with-apache=../apache_1.3.24 --with-curl=/sw --with-pdflib=/sw

--enable-exif --with-mysq=/sw



then mod-ssl config:

./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.24 --with-ssl=/sw --enable-rule=SSL_SDBM



final apache config:

./configure --prefix=/sw --enable-shared=max --enable-module=most --target=apache --with-layout=GNU

--enable-suexec --suexec-caller=www-data --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a --enable-module=ssl



on final make of apache there was error in src/modules/ssl. i had to rm -ldbm and -lgcc and run gcc line by hand. then was able to finish make.



i dont know what effect that may have on the build and i am interested to know, this was the only problem spot finally after many hours of hacking at it.

testing so far:

phpinfo() via http and https works.

alex at ax-im dot com
31-Mar-2002 12:40


To get Pear to work in OSX 10.1, here's an alternative to adding the ini_set statement mentioned above to every script. The default include path would appear to be .:/usr/local/lib/php, so just add a link...



sudo ln -s /System/Library/PHP /usr/local/lib/php



Now your Pear scripts will work without modification.

info at ericbontenbal dot nl
18-Feb-2002 09:43


for using PHP on MacOSX, see article #106485 of the Apple knowledge base

lanhel at mac dot com
07-Nov-2001 06:14


Getting PHP running on 10.1 is simple.





1. su to root


2. Edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf


3. Uncomment "Load Module php4_module" line.


4. Uncomment "AddModule mod_php4.c" line.


5. Uncomment "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" line.


6. Uncomment "AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps" line.


7. Find "<Directory /home/*/Sites>" block and uncomment the entire Directory directive block.





This will allow PHP to execute from ~/Sites directory.

larry(at)shafferinteractive.com
24-Sep-2001 05:40


For the latest on Mac OS X PHP installs (as of 10.0.4 on 9.24.01) check out http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/php.html





This page also has some info on MySQL installs.

oster at ieee dot org
30-Jul-2001 12:17


If you've got Mac OS X pre-installed on your Mac, you've also got php4 pre-installed. You don't need to download or compile anything. You just need to edit the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file. Use the "sudo open -a TextEdit..." command line, above. Search for "php", and make sure you've un-commented _all_ the relevant lines: the two AddType lines above, and also the AddModule and LoadModule lines. (but not the AddType lines for php3, since you'll be using php4.) Save and restart Apache with "sudo apachectl graceful", and you are done.

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