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MAMP + memcache = drilling a screw in my eye   20 July 2010

Here’s yet another blog post to document something so stupid that I hope to never do it again, but know I will. I spent the better part of the afternoon trying to get the PECL memcache extension working with the PHP 5.2 part of a MAMP installation and finally managed to get it working.

Install XCode

Open up a terminal and become the root user:

$ sudo su

Make all the MAMP PHP binaries executable:

$ chmod u+x /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/bin/p*

Now get the memcache source, compile it and copy the library into PHP’s extensions directory:

$ cd /tmp

$ wget http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.2.5.tgz

$ tar -zxvf memcache-2.2.5.tgz

$ cd memcached-2.2.5

$ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/bin/phpize

$ MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 CFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64' LDFLAGS='-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64' ./configure

$ make

$ cp modules/memcache.so /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/

Tell PHP to load the memcache extension:

$ echo 'extension=memcache.so' > /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.2/php.ini

Sources

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