SUM: Building PHP Mapscript

[Bill Thoen]

I think my version of PHP just came with the distro and I didn't have 
its header files. So are you saying that I really should build a new 
version of PHP from source or just hope I get lucky? If one has just the 
binary PHP is there any other option than rebuilding PHP?


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Bill Thoen wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for helping get PHP MapScript to compile. I managed 
>> to get it to work finally.  A word of warning though for anyone else 
>> who might need to do this. Unless you plan to rebuild your copy of 
>> PHP, make sure you use the same version of PHP source that you are 
>> running on your machine. I first tried downloading the latest PHP 
>> source, but since that was a few versions newer than what's running 
>> on my machine, the resulting php_mapscript.so library wouldn't work 
>> (the API versions didn't match). But when I used the same version of 
>> PHP source as I have installed on my machine, everything worked fine. 
>> In retrospect, I should have expected this, but I seem to have to 
>> bang my head against the wall a few times before I realize why I have 
>> a headache...
>>
>
> Well, by downloading and using the PHP source of the same version as 
> what is installed on your machine the build worked fine, but there is 
> a small possibility that you may still encounter intermittent crashes 
> at runtime because the PHP headers are customized to match your build 
> options by PHP's configure, and you didn't use the headers that match 
> exactly your PHP build options. Options such as the version of REGEX 
> or GD used by PHP have an impact on MapScript.
>
> The only safe way to go is to either point to the PHP source tree that 
> has been configured and compiled for your local install of PHP, or 
> point to the installed header files (installed by make install or by a 
> php-devel package).
>
> Of course things may still work if you're lucky, but if you encounter 
> intermittent crashes you'll know where to start looking.
>
> Daniel


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