Building PHP For MacOS

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I was using XAMPP and decided to uninstall it and use MacOS' in-built apache and php modules. But while uninstalling XAMPP I deleted /usr/bin/php files and other PHP-CLI files accidentally. And I decided to install newest version of PHP (5.5.12) instead of rebuilding current version (5.4.24). Downloaded it and unzip. After this executed this command as mentioned at this guide.

./configure '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--enable-cli' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-zlib=/usr' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-bz2=/usr' '--enable-calendar' '--disable-cgi' '--with-curl=/usr' '--enable-dba' '--enable-ndbm=/usr' '--enable-exif' '--enable-fpm' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-pear' '--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-tidy' '--enable-wddx' '--with-xmlrpc' '--enable-zip'
make
make install

When i check phpinfo() , it's still version 5.4.24 . This line from my httpd.conf

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so coming from old version and i couldn't ind libphp5.so for new version. There is no libphp5.so file inside modules dir.

How can i use new PHP build with Apache ?

UPDATE

Results of php -v command .

PHP 5.5.12 (cli) (built: May 27 2014 05:17:21) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP GroupZend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

manpreet 2 years ago

As an alternative to using Mac's native PHP install I reccommend homebrew. Unlike XAMPP you don't have to work within a restrictive shell, so you can keep PHP and other modules (PHPMyAdmin, Apache, etc.) updated to the latest versions.

Since you aren't messing around with Mac's flawed delicate system folders, you won't have to worry about dependency hell, either, or accidentally erasing files and folders. Homebrew won't let you upgrade anything without upgrading its dependents, and everything is contained within its own repositories, called cellars.