Re: Compiling

> I often see people get to a situation where they are missing a module and > have to recompile PHP. Well, doing something like: ./configure --with-mysql=shared make does actually work. It creates modules/mysql.so (along with a standalone PHP binary, but you can ignore that) This mysql.so can be loaded into PHP using dl() or via the extension directive in the php.ini file, so you don't actually have to recompile PHP to add a module. This is true for both the static and the DSO version of PHP. > Is there a reason not to compile it all always? I mean, simply compile all > of the options like > LDAP, PDF,FTP, GD, ODBC etc... and the rest of the things most of us use or > maybe will use > sometime. The reason being that most of these things require third-party library support and trying to compile it all will be difficult since we would have to go hunting all over the file system looking for the needed stuff and most of it won't be available. -Rasmus