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Making Leopard PHP a better PHP by adding GD support

March 4th. 2008, 7:32pm

The nice thing about MacOS X 10.5 Leopard is that it comes with PHP 5.2.4 pre-installed. Unfortunately one of the features Apple choose not to compile in was support for the GD graphics library, which I use extensively. Furthermore compiling in new features has proven to be somewhat troublesome. When I tried to configure PHP 5.2.5 on my Leopard box which the following commands (a variant of the configure command I would issue under Tiger with no complaints):

<br />./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man <br />   --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking <br />   --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs <br />   --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr <br />   --enable-cli <br />   --with-zlib-dir=/usr <br />   --enable-trans-sid <br />   --with-xml <br />   --with-dom <br />   --enable-exif <br />   --enable-ftp <br />   --enable-mbstring <br />   --enable-mbregex <br />   --enable-dbx <br />   --enable-sockets <br />   --with-iodbc=/usr <br />   --with-curl=/usr <br />   --with-iconv=shared,/opt/local<br />   --with-openssl=shared,/opt/local <br />   --with-xmlrpc <br />   --with-xsl=/usr <br />   --with-config-file-path=/etc <br />   --sysconfdir=/private/etc <br />   --with-gd=/opt/local --enable-gd-native-ttf <br />   --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local <br />   --with-tiff-dir=/opt/local <br />   --with-png-dir=/opt/local <br />   --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11 <br />   --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11 <br />   --with-pdflib=/opt/local <br />   --with-gettext=/opt/local<br />   --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql <br />   --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config <br />   --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql <br />   --without-pear<br />

The result was a failed configure due to an error in mysql configuration. I pinned this down to a request for a library at /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib which is actually located one directory up. This can be fixed via the command line using:

<br />cd /usr/local/mysql/lib<br />mkdir mysql<br />cp libmysqlclient.15.dylib mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib

Then the ./configure worked just fine. Unfortunately, when I did a

<br />make<br />make test

to compile the PHP and test it, there was no happiness. There were over 50 errors, some of them major. Crud.

This is just the setup. See, all I needed was GD graphics library support in PHP for my website. Well, after googling for some time for some master hacker’s notes on getting PHP 5.2.5 to compile on Leopard, I discovered a fellow named Hill Pei had hacked GD support into the Leopard PHP without too much effort. His method simply requires some comfort with the command line and editing text files. In five minutes, I had GD support with Leopard’s built-in PHP. Excellent! [Despite a report in the comments to the contrary. This still appears to be necessary if you apply Security Update 2008-002, which installs PHP version 5.2.5. In which case, you should grab the php 5.2.5 code and work from there. I can confirm Hill Pei's instructions do work after Security Update 20008-002 if you grab the PHP-5.2.5 code instead of 5.2.4 as he suggests.]

5 Responses to “Making Leopard PHP a better PHP by adding GD support”

Mr K Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 12:12 am

Hey there

great post … a question for you. how did you update PHP on leopard from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5?? Is it easy enough to do? A step by step tutorial would be awesome if you had the time. It seems the 5.2.4 that comes with Leopard is also missing things like mcrypt & pdo_mysql

Juan Cabanela Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

Unfortunately, I have been unable to get PHP 5.2.5 to compile properly in Leopard, despite trying some tricks like re-installing/upgrading Apache and the like. PHP 5.2.5 just throws a slew of errors in its ‘make test’ phase when I attempt to get it working, so I have given up on upgrading to it for now.

Jeff Parsons Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 12:38 am

It looks to me like Apple’s recent security update (2008-002), which updates PHP to 5.2.5, has bundled GD support into the PHP apache module.

That’s good news, except for one small detail: the CLI version of PHP 5.2.5 that they’ve provided does NOT appear to include GD support. So when I run any PHP tests using the command-line interface, I still have to use a home-built version of PHP.

Also, I suspect the reason many people have been unsuccessful building their own PHP for Leopard is because Leopard needs a 64-bit version of PHP — in part because the OS shipped with a 64-bit version of apache.

I recommend building just the GD library, rather than all of PHP, and continue using the pre-installed PHP. Before the 2008-002, I was able to do that as follows:


cd php-5.2.4/ext/gd
phpize
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp
" CCFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch 
x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bind_at_load" ./configure --with-zlib-dir=/
usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6
make
sudo make install
sudo echo "extension=gd.so" &gt;&gt; /etc/php.ini
sudo apachectl restart

I haven’t tried this procedure again with the 5.2.5 PHP sources and 2008-002 security update, however.

Jeff Parsons Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Fyi, the above steps do still work with 2008-002 and PHP 5.2.5.

Also, I remembered those steps came from: osx.topicdesk.com

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April 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

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