How do you upgrade MAMP's PHP to PHP 5.3 ?

Question

I haven't been able to find any resources on how to do this.. Anyone have any ideas or resources?!

I've tried changing the ./configure options and I'm solving things one at a time but it seems like this method could take forever.. My current error is..

checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... no configure: error: Problem with libjpeg.(a|so). Please check config.log for more information.

I'm running Snow Leopard.

Any help would be great, Matt Mueller

Answer 1

I know this is an old question- but still relevant.

I'm updating my MAMP and am keeping up to date on PHP's stable releases by using a guide I found at davidgolding.net

The Guide goes as follows:

First, run the

phpinfo()

function in a PHP script on your localhost or go to PHPMyAdmin and hunt down the configuration page. You should see a large chunk of configuration markup at or near the top:

'./configure' '--with-mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library' 
'--with-apxs2=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apxs' 
'--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library'
'--with-png-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library' '--with-zlib' 
'--with-freetype-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library' 
'--prefix=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5' '--exec-prefix=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5' 
'--sysconfdir=/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5' '--with-soap' 
'--with-config-file-path=/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5'
'--enable-track-vars' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' 
'--with-bz2=/usr' '--with-ldap' '--with-mysqli=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_config' 
'--with-sqlite' '--with-ttf' '--with-t1lib=/Applications/MAMP/Library' 
'--enable-mbstring=all' '--with-curl=/Applications/MAMP/Library' '--enable-dbx' 
'--enable-sockets' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-imap=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library/lib/imap-2006i' 
'--enable-soap' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-calendar' 
'--with-pgsql=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library/pg' '--enable-dbase' 
'--enable-exif' '--with-libxml-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library' 
'--with-gettext=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library' '--with-xsl=/Applications/MAMP/Library' 
'--with-pdo-mysql=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library' '--with-pdo-pgsql=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library/pg' 
'--with-mcrypt=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library' '--with-openssl'

Copy and paste this whole chunk into your text editor and remove the single quotes (search and replace should do it). Look for the flag

--with-pdo-mysql=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library

and replace it with:

--with-pdo-mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library

If you don’t do this, you might end up with an error.

ld: symbol(s) not found

Finally, add the following flag to the end:

--without-iconv

After you have downloaded the latest PHP release of your choosing from PHP Sources Snapshots,

cd

to the downloaded directory in Terminal. Paste your reformatted configuration string (all of it, including the beginning ./configure command) and run it.

After the configuration phase is finished, run:

$ make
$ sudo make install

Relaunch MAMP, and you’re good to go.