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Zak
Asked: 2009-10-29 14:51:22 +0800 CST

How do you get syck to compile with php5.2.x

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What are the steps needed to compile in support for syck into php 5.2.x on a 64 bit centos 5.3 system?

I haven't seen this another good FAQ on this, so I figured I would drop both the question and answer here since it took me a good while to figure out. If anyone appreciates, please upvote both Q & A so I know to keep posting things like this here.

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    Notes: This was a 64 bit centos 5.3 box

    So first I had to download source for both syck and php. I extracted them to ~/syck and ~/php5 respectively .

    if you just try to configure php5 further adding in syck, you will see there is no configure option to add it in:

    [z@abc php-5.2.6]# ./configure --help |grep syck
[z@abc php-5.2.6]#

    next, I set up some compiling options

    export CFLAGS="-fPIC -O3" this gives me level 3 optimization and a processor independent compile.

    then build syck

    [z@abc syck-0.53/ext/php]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/syck
[z@abc syck-0.53/ext/php]# make -j4
[z@abc syck-0.53/ext/php]# make check
[z@abc syck-0.53/ext/php]# make install

    now I copy the php extension dir for syck over into php's ext area

    cd {SYCKSRCDIR}
cp -r ext/php ../{PHPSRCDIR}/ext/syck
cd ../{PHPSRCDIR}

    Then I changedir back over to php (~/php5)

    Now that syck is in php's ext dir, i can run buildconf and it will pick it up and put it into the configure options for php5

    [z@abc php-5.2.6]#  ./buildconf --force

    If you are interested to see what happens, you can run the buildconf without the --force, it won't hurt anything, but will fail to run

    Now I get

    [z@abc php-5.2.6]# ./configure --help |grep syck
--with-syck=DIR       Include syck support 
[z@abc php-5.2.6]#

    So php will now let me add syck as a statically compiled module.. w000t!!

    Finally:

    [z@abc php-5.2.6]# ./configure  '--prefix=/usr/local/php5' --with-syck=/usr/local/syck

    Then it's make time!!!

    [z@abc php-5.2.6]# make -j4
[z@abc php-5.2.6]# make test
[z@abc php-5.2.6]# make install

    Done!! woot

    To check my work:

    [z@abc php-5.2.6]# /usr/local/php5/bin/php -m
[PHP Modules]
.
.
.
syck
.
.
.
[z@abc php-5.2.6]#

    yup php -m sees it as a module!

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