Comments on: Making Leopard PHP a better PHP by adding GD support

By: Urania » Blog Archive » osxutils now fixed on MacPorts under Leopard

Urania » Blog Archive » osxutils now fixed on MacPorts under Leopard — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:33:14 +0000

[...] did indeed install osxutils as promised. I also noticed they upgraded from version 1.6 to 1.7, maybe that was all that was necessary. All the MacPorts packages I used in Tiger now work in Leopard. Now if I could only get a proper recompile of PHP working under Leopard. [...]

By: Jeff Parsons

Jeff Parsons — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:36:14 +0000

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

By: Jeff Parsons

Jeff Parsons — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:38:18 +0000

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" >> /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.

By: Juan Cabanela

Juan Cabanela — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:27:38 +0000

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.

By: Mr K

Mr K — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:12:46 +0000

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