svn: /web/php/trunk/ get-involved.php

bjori Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:31:37 +0000 Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=312782 Log: Slight improvement for dependencies installation and configure procedures Changed paths: U web/php/trunk/get-involved.php Modified: web/php/trunk/get-involved.php =================================================================== --- web/php/trunk/get-involved.php 2011-07-01 21:09:38 UTC (rev 312781) +++ web/php/trunk/get-involved.php 2011-07-01 21:31:37 UTC (rev 312782) @@ -18,18 +18,49 @@ <h2>Improving PHP</h2> <p> - On Linux you'll need have the following + This particular article assumes you are running <i>Ubuntu Linux</i>. +</p> +<p> + To get a working build environment you need to run the following command; <ul> - <li>autoconf</li> - <li>automake</li> - <li>gcc</li> - <li>bison</li> - <li>flex</li> - <li>re2c</li> + <li>sudo apt-get build-dep php5</li> </ul> +For any extension that requires 3rd party libraries you need to install those libraries. +The simplest way to accomplish that is to to use <em>apt-get</em> to install the Ubuntu build dependencies for that particular extension. For example, if you want to build PHP with <a href="/manual/intl">intl</a> support you have to run; + <ul> + <li>sudo apt-get build-dep php5<em>-intl</em></li> + </ul> +to install the ext/intl dependencies. </p> <p> -Once you have those tools installed you'll need to checkout PHP from SVN, configure and build it; +To actually build PHP with ext/intl support you need to configure PHP to enable it, f.e. + <ul> + <li>./configure --enable-intl</li> + </ul> + The rule of thumb for configuring PHP is;<br /> + <ul> + <li>If its a pure PHP functionality use <em>--enable</em>extension-name<br /> + Example; + <ul> + <li>./configure --enable-soap</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>And for extensions wrapping external libraries use <em>--with</em>-extension-name<br /> + Example; + <ul> + <li>./configure --with-m--with-pgsql</li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + But as you saw with ext/intl, rules are meant to be broken - so you <em>should</em> check <i>./configure --help</i> first.<br /> + When PHP encounters unknown configure argument you will be notified in the end, so you can modify your arguments and re-run ./configure before executing <em>make</em>. +</p> +<p> +PHP creates a script called <em>config.nice</em> after every successful <em>./configure --some --arguments</em> so you don't have to remember all the options you passed to ./configure every time you want to rebuild PHP, running <em>./config.nice</em> will do that for you +</p> + +<p> +Once you have the build dependencies installed you'll need to checkout PHP from SVN, configure and build it; <ul> <li>svn co https://svn.php.net/repository/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_4 php54</li> <li>cd php54</li>