Re: Compiling PHP Source guides

Donald Tyler wrote:

I am looking for a guide on compiling PHP 4. I am a complete newbie to compiling and have no idea where to start, so any links to guides and/or other useful info would be much appreciated.

PHP is a scripting language, no need to compile it. If you're really new, 2 links from the PHP home page A simple tutorial http://www.php.net/tut.php PHP Documentation http://www.php.net/docs.php If you mean compiling php itself (not a php script written in PHP), then go read the PHP manual: II. Installation and Configuration http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php

My reason is that I need MySQL 4 support,

Just check the manual. MySQL functions can be used within PHP, with the mysql or mysqli extensions (see links below). Under Linux, it comes in packages like mysql-server, php4, php4-mysql, etc and you can simply install these packages. LXX. MySQL Functions http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php "In PHP 5, MySQL is no longer enabled by default, nor is the MySQL library bundled with PHP. Read this FAQ http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.databases.php#faq.databases.mysql.php5 for details on why." LXXI. Improved MySQL Extension, PHP Manual http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysqli.php "The mysqli extension allows you to access the functionality provided by MySQL 4.1 and above"

but I would like to get a general overview of compiling a program source in general.

On Unix/Linux like systems, it's something like $ tar xzf soft-1.0.tar.gz $ cd soft-1.0 $ ./configure $ make $ su - (to become root, if it's your box) # make install Christophe