Re: osX and PEAR, tests needed

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:09, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > <george@omniti.com> wrote : > > >> > >> I think it works like in any other unix. OSX is FreeBSD based. You can > >> use > >> setenv if you have tcsh (default shell in OSX but others are > >> available). > > > > I agree completely. I still have some problems with loading > > zend_extensions or extensions as so's (dlcompat issues), but otherwise > > osx is seamless. > > True, I forgot about this problem. > It seems it is not possible yet to dynamically load external extensions > (like PDFLib for instance), these extensions have to be compiled with PHP. > > This probably means that usage of PECL extensions will be limited on OSX at > the moment. I guess there is a workaround but I haven't heard of any :( >From the NEWS file in PHP 4.3.0 - Added support for dynamically loaded extensions on OS X / Darwin. NOTE: This requires Apache 1.3.25 or later. (kalowsky, markonen) Although i didn't test it. Maybe ask one of those 2 guys. chregu