[mapserver-users] recomm. for OS X (was Re: Cannot dynamically load php_mapscript.so)

[Puneet Kishor]

Daniel,

Thanks for your response. I have finally discovered that dynamic loading 
of libraries is not supported on PHP on OS X as of yet. Thanks to Steve 
W for pointing the following link to me 
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/php.html

I have updated the wiki appropriately.

pk/


On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 10:23  AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Puneet Kishor wrote:
>>
>> I read the notes on the wiki. Even if I follow those instructions, 
>> don't
>> I have to compile PHP as a CGI as well... after all, how will I get the
>> php binary unless I compile it, no? And to compile PHP as a CGI, I need
>> the Apache src to compile it against, no? The problem is that the stock
>> OS X comes pre-installed with Apache 1.3.24 and PHP 4.1.2, no src tree.
>> So, I have to ditch all of that and restart. Which, then involves
>> compiling Perl and mod_perl, because they go out of sync.
>>
>
>
> You do not need access to an Apache source tree in order to compile PHP
> as a CGI.  A CGI is by definition a standalone executable, and for this
> reason has no depency on any web server.  Try removing the --with-apxs
> and/or --with-apache directives in your PHP configure options and it
> will then build as a CGI without any dependency on an Apache source tree
> (I never rebuild Apache myself).
>
>
>> Anyway, I did all of the above, and finally got php_mapsript.so to
>> compile. Now I face additional problems... I still get the message that
>> dynamic library is not supported. Enable_dl is on, yet I can't seem to
>> get dynamic libraries going. There seems to be no configuration option
>> in PHP to enable or disable this, except via the php.ini file, which I
>> have done.
>>
>
> This looks like another problem that we used to have with PHP3 because
> loading of shared libraries was not enabled by default in the PHP3
> compilation process... I never ran into that problem myself with PHP4,
> but you may want to read the following FAQ and try to make the proposed
> change to the LDFLAGS in your PHP4 makefile:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/phpmapscript-install-howto.html#d41e558
>
> There may also be an option in the PHP4 configure to enable dl ... you
> should probably look for that first.
>
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