How to build PHP 7.3?

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I have a problem with building the package for PHP 7.3 from git. At the moment I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with utdatet php 7.0.x. (It's impossible to upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 at my VPS, because it crashes at boot. I only have Virtuozzo to debug and I can't find the point where it crashes, so upgrading to 18.04 isn't an option yet.)

My steps so far:

I have installed all programs for build, (git, build essential, libtool, bison and re2c).

I cloned the git from GitHub with:

git clone https://github.com/php/php-src.git 

Then I selected the branch I want:

git checkout PHP-7.3 

Then I ran:

./buildconf

What is the next step?

I need the following packages:

  php7.3
  libapache2-mod-php7.3
  php7.3-mysql
  mysql-server

I didn't search for a PPA, because I wanted to do it on my own in order to learn by doing it.