Getting PHP + GD + PostgreSQL working on OSX 10.5 (aka recompiling everything) 24 December 2008
Finding myself in need of a PostgreSQL server to test some patches for Drupal core, I’ve decided to do a follow up to my guide to getting PHP + GD + MySQL installed on OS X.
Fortunately for me John VanDyk wrote up Beginning with Drupal 6 and PostgreSQL on OS X 10.5 Leopard which covers the nitty gritty of getting PostgreSQL server installed. He doesn’t address recompiling PHP so I’ll pick up the story there.
Last Updated: June 1, 2009
First, a couple of notes on the formatting of this guide. The blocks of shell
command typically include the shell prompt (sh-3.2#) when you’re
copying-and-pasting the command make sure you don’t grab that part. Since this
is long enough I’ve omitted large blocks of the compiler output and used [...]
to indicated the omission.
Switch to the root account
To follow these instructions you need to be running as the root user using the
default sh shell. If you’ve got the correct administrator permissions you can
switch users using the sudo command and providing your password.
amorton@minivac:~% sudo su
Password:
sh-3.2#
Install MacPorts
Since you have already followed John VanDyk’s guide you’ll have Mac Ports installed and only need to install a couple of extra packages.
Use port to grab a copy of wget and the GD dependency, jpeg, as well as
freetype and t1lib for rendering fonts. You’ll might see some other
sub-dependencies installed during the process:
sh-3.2# /opt/local/bin/port install wget +ssl freetype t1lib jpeg
---> Fetching expat
---> Attempting to fetch expat-2.0.1.tar.gz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/expat
[...]
---> Fetching jpeg
---> Verifying checksum(s) for jpeg
---> Extracting jpeg
---> Applying patches to jpeg
---> Configuring jpeg
---> Building jpeg with target all
---> Staging jpeg into destroot
---> Installing jpeg 6b_2
---> Activating jpeg 6b_2
---> Cleaning jpeg
Recompile Apache
Rather than just installing Apache from MacPorts I want to rebuild in the native OS X locations so I can use the built-in support. I tried to skip over this step but after wasting a bunch of time finally realized it was important. Grab the latest version of Apache 2.2:
sh-3.2# cd /tmp
sh-3.2# wget http://ftp.wayne.edu/apache/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.bz2
--2008-12-15 18:04:55-- http://ftp.wayne.edu/apache/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.bz2
Resolving ftp.wayne.edu... 141.217.1.55
Connecting to ftp.wayne.edu|141.217.1.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5230130 (5.0M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `httpd-2.2.11.tar.bz2'
100%[======================================>] 5,230,130 453K/s in 9.1s
2008-12-15 18:05:04 (561 KB/s) - `httpd-2.2.11.tar.bz2' saved [5230130/5230130]
Extract it:
sh-3.2# bunzip2 httpd-2.2.11.tar.bz2
sh-3.2# tar xf httpd-2.2.11.tar
Compile it:
sh-3.2# cd httpd-2.2.11
sh-3.2# ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all
[...]
sh-3.2# make install
Recompile PHP
Download the latest PHP source:
sh-3.2# cd /tmp
sh-3.2# wget http://us3.php.net/get/php-5.2.9.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
--2009-05-19 12:40:42-- http://us3.php.net/get/php-5.2.9.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
Resolving us3.php.net... 209.41.74.194
Connecting to us3.php.net|209.41.74.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.9.tar.bz2 [following]
--2009-05-19 12:40:43-- http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.9.tar.bz2
Connecting to us3.php.net|209.41.74.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10203122 (9.7M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `php-5.2.9.tar.bz2'
100%[======================================>] 10,203,122 308K/s in 34s
2009-05-19 12:41:16 (296 KB/s) - `php-5.2.9.tar.bz2' saved [10203122/10203122]
Extract it:
sh-3.2# bunzip2 php-5.2.9.tar.bz2
sh-3.2# tar xf php-5.2.9.tar
Compile it:
sh-3.2# cd php-5.2.9
sh-3.2# 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"
sh-3.2# ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/private/etc --sysconfdir=/private/etc --enable-cli --with-curl=/opt/local --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-sockets --with-ldap=/usr --with-ldap-sasl --with-kerberos=/usr --with-mime-magic=/etc/apache2/magic --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl=/usr --without-iconv \
--with-gd --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local --enable-exif \
--with-freetype-dir=/opt/local --with-t1lib=/opt/local \
--enable-pdo --with-pgsql=/opt/local/lib/postgresql83 --with-pdo-pgsql=/opt/local/lib/postgresql83
[...]
Thank you for using PHP.
sh-3.2# make install
Test that PHP has the GD and PostgreSQL modules installed:
sh-3.2# php -m |grep "gd\|pgsql"
gd
pdo_pgsql
pgsql
If you don’t already have a php.ini file you’ll need to create one by copying the default:
sh-3.2# if ( ! test -e /private/etc/php.ini ) ; then echo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini; fi
Restart Apache:
sh-3.2# apachectl restart
Clean up
Once you’ve got everything working correctly you can remove the source code:
sh-3.2# rm -r /tmp/php-5.2.* /tmp/httpd-2.2.*
This it actually pretty optional, when you reboot OS X cleans out the temp directory.