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Mac OS X installs

This section contains notes and hints specific to Mac OS X installs of PHP.

Using Packages

There are a few pre-packaged and pre-compiled versions of PHP for Mac OS X. This can greatly assist in building a standard configuration, but if you need to have a different set of features (such as a secure server, or a different database driver), you may need to build php and/or your webserver. If you are unfamiliar with building and compiling your own software, it's worth investigating whether or not somebody has already built a packaged version of PHP with the features you need. Lightyear Design offers a pre-built version of PHP for OS X, as does Tenon Intersystems

Compiling for OS X server

There are two slightly different versions of Mac OS X, client and server. The following is for OS X server.

Example 2-3. Mac OS X server install 

1. Get the latest distributions of Apache and PHP
2. Untar them, and run the configure program on Apache like so.
    ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr \ 
    --localstatedir=/var \ 
    --mandir=/usr/share/man \ 
    --libexecdir=/System/Library/Apache/Modules \ 
    --iconsdir=/System/Library/Apache/Icons \ 
    --includedir=/System/Library/Frameworks/Apache.framework/Versions/1.3/Headers \ 
    --enable-shared=max \ 
    --enable-module=most \ 
    --target=apache 

4. You may also want to add this line: 
    setenv OPTIM=-O2 
    If you want the compiler to do some optimization. 
    
5. Next, go to the php4 source directory and configure it. 
    ./configure --prefix=/usr \ 
    --sysconfdir=/etc \ 
    --localstatedir=/var \ 
    --mandir=/usr/share/man \ 
    --with-xml \ 
    --with-apache=/src/apache_1.3.12 

    If you have any other addiitons (MySQL, GD, etc.), be sure to add
    them here. For the --with-apache string, put in the path to your 
    apache source directory, for example "/src/apache_1.3.12". 
6. make
7. make install    
    This will add a directory to your Apache source directory under
    src/modules/php4.
    
8. Now, reconfigure Apache to build in PHP4.
    ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr \ 
    --localstatedir=/var \ 
    --mandir=/usr/share/man \ 
    --libexecdir=/System/Library/Apache/Modules \ 
    --iconsdir=/System/Library