Comments on: Recompiling PHP 5.3 On Snow Leopard With Freetype Support

By: PK

PK — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:09 +0000

This site has saved me so much pain – thanks sincerely Ian. And Jared Henderson – I love you man!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:47:27 +0000

Worked perfectly! Thanks

By: troot

troot — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:20:38 +0000

Just thought I’d share what I had to do on my MacBook Pro to get this to configure (based on Jareds shell script). I don’t know if it’s right, but I had to change the –with-freetype-dir parameter for the php ./configure command to /usr/X11/ and prepend the command with LIBS=-lresolv. I based it on this article here: http://www.issociate.de/board/post/499984/cannot_compile_PHP_5.2.11_on_Mac_OS_X_10.6.1.html

Otherwise I kept getting an error. Seems to be working so thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:28:51 +0000

Jared Henderson, thank you for combining all of the updated information into that file. Saved a lot of time and worked great! Thank you.

By: Jared Henderson

Jared Henderson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:35:41 +0000

Finally got this working on 3 different Macs with the help of this tutorial and a bunch of digging. A few lessons learned:

a current, working replacement for the PCRE download line is:

curl http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre/7.7/pcre-7.7.tar.gz -O

Also, if you get a “configure: error: no acceptable C compiler” on a Mac that has been UPGRADED to Snow Leopard, RE-install xcode from the upgrade DVD (under “optional installs”)

I also found I had to install LIBJPEG for all three Macs. And had to search out some up-to-date download urls, which are included in linked file below.

I had a couple of other weird problems that turned out to be copy-paste issues (as noted above), some involving curly-quotes, but also one with a hyphen that stumped me for a while. I created a text document with all the terminal commands that can be mostly copy pasted (except swapping out your own username, and you still need to do the bit about changing the line in “iconv.c”), and I’ve linked to it below.

The link contains the terminal commands that I used to to this successfully on three different macs, including up-to-date download sources:

http://blog.rachelhendersonphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/recompile-php5-3-with-freetype.sh

I couldn’t have done it without this post. Thanks so much!

By: Attila F

Attila F — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:59:56 +0000

configure: error: Problem with libjpeg.(a|so). Please check config.log for more information.

Anybody had the above problem during php configure?

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:48:31 +0000

Thank you so much! I needed to get freetype working for pChart and this solved the problem for me. I did find that I had to create the directory /usr/local/man/man1/cjpeg.1 for the libjpeg install to work though.

By: iBeb

iBeb — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:31:10 +0000

My question may be a bit stupid, but I take the risk.
After installing everything, can I delete the /src folder?
If not, is there a way to move files somewhere else?

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By: ROn

ROn — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:55:36 +0000

Amazing how every Snow Leopard update breaks this… ugh. But just kept all my files in the same place and installed again and I am back up.