Source install Apache 2.2.13 + PHP 5.3 + Snow Leopard

Question

Can anyone direct me to or write their experiences installing Apache and PHP on Snow Leopard?

I had this working in the past on Leopard, it would die after a security update, but was as simple as:

$ ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all
$ make
$ sudo make install

and I was up and running again.

Since the Snow Leopard update I get the following issue on make command

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libexpat.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libexpat.la'
make[2]: *** [htpasswd] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Answer 1

As most of you know Snow Leopard (SL) is based on 64-bit architecture, and when you install Xcode 3.2 that comes with SL the gcc compiler defaults to 4.2.1 and seems to default to x86_64 not i386.

Thanks to the following websites:

• http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard/
• http://projects.serenity.de/php/
• http://dawsdesign.com/drupal/comment/reply/30#comment-form
• http://pixelchimp.net/blog/pixel-chimp/reverting-php-53-5210-snow-leopard(most helpful for finding the other sites)
• http://www.kevinkorb.com/post/24
• http://www.latko.org/2009/01/31/compiling-64-bit-apachephp-on-mac-os-x-1056/
• http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/recompiling-php-5-3-on-snow-leopard-with-freetype-support/

My Solution:

1. Follow the instructions on hivelogic.com for installing MySQL on SL

2. Install Apache 2.2.14 via instructions on http://projects.serenity.de/php/ - it uses 2.2.13 but replacing a 13 with a 14 is easy right? ;) After Apache (x86_64) is installed do the following:

   cd /usr/local/apache2/bin
   cp httpd /usr/sbin/
   cp apachectl /usr/sbin/
   

   As mentioned on http://www.kevinkorb.com/post/24

3. Compile and install packages (freetype,gettext,libjpeg,libpng,mcrypt,mhash,etc) mentioned right after the Apache install instructions on http://projects.serenity.de/php/ until IMAP, if you need IMAP then try the instructions mentioned in the url above but I didn't install since I didn't need it.

   NOTE: These all compiled as x86_64 with the exception of libpng which required the the following to be compiled as 64-bit:

   *export CFLAGS="-arch x86_64" ./configure

4. This is where all the head banging on a desk and trial and error occurred. The installation of PHP 5.3.0. The biggest issue is with ICONV which has linking issues. I searched all over Google and some others were successful by editing the iconv.c file and the Makefile by adding -lresolv to the EXTRA_LIBS= after the ./configure string was executed. I was not so lucky, but still needed to make the edits for the --without-iconv parameter to work. Also --with-xmlrpc would not work. For the iconv hacks please refer to this blog entry

So here is my ./configure string:

./configure 
--prefix=/usr/local/php5
--without-iconv
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
--enable-pdo
--with-gd 
--with-zlib 
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local 
--with-png-dir=/usr/local 
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local 
--with-curl 
--with-mcrypt 
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql 
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config 
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql 
--with-mhash 
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local 
--with-t1lib=/usr/local 
--with-xsl 
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local 
--with-gettext 
--with-bz2=/usr 
--with-openssl=/usr 
--enable-bcmath 
--enable-calendar 
--enable-cgi 
--enable-exif 
--enable-ftp 
--enable-gd-native-ttf 
--enable-mbstring 
--enable-soap 
--enable-sqlite-utf8 
--enable-cli 
--enable-wddx 
--enable-zip

make
sudo make install

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On a final note, I downloaded PHP-5.3.2-dev (http://snaps.php.net/) and it seems to have fixed the linking issues with ICONV and XMLRPC. The only changes that I've made to the above ./configure string were replace --without-iconv with --with-iconv=/usr/local and added --with-xmlrpc. This is a dev version and I am sure that it still has bugs so use at your own discretion.

If you are having any issues please feel free to comment and I will try to help!