Errors compiling PHP from source on a Raspberry Pi
The PHP version used is 7.2 directly from the git reository from github. Newer version might not work as expected.
The version used to compile is the Raspbian (Raspbian Stretch with desktop and recommended software):
- Version: November 2018
- Release date: 2018-11-13
- Kernel version: 4.14
Getting the source code
git clone https://github.com/php/php-src
Entering the cloned repository to start the compilation process
cd php-src
Chage to the version 7.2
git tag php-7.2.0
The following errors are sequential when trying to install PHP in a Raspberry Pi, the errors show up in the following commands:
- ./buildconf
- ./configure
Error (buildconf): autoconf out of date
Executed command: ./buildconf.
buildconf: checking installation...
buildconf: autoconf not found.
You need autoconf version 2.68 or newer installed
to build PHP from Git.
build/build.mk:36: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo 'buildmk.stamp'
make: *** [buildmk.stamp] Error 1
Solution
apt-get install autoconf
Success output
buildconf: checking installation...
buildconf: autoconf version 2.69 (ok)
rebuilding aclocal.m4
rebuilding configure
rebuilding main/php_config.h.in
Error (configure): bison out of date
Executed command ./configure
configure: WARNING: This bison version is not supported for regeneration of the Zend/PHP parsers (found: none, min: 204, excluded: ).
Solution
sudo apt-get install bison
Error (configure): rec2c not installed
Executed command: ./configure
checking for re2c... no
configure: error: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later to generate PHP lexers.
Solution
sudo apt-get install re2c
Error (configure): libxml2 dev dependecy not installed
Executed command: ./configure
checking libxml2 install dir... no
checking for xml2-config path...
configure: error: libxml2 not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.
Solution
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Error (configure): sqlite3 dev dependecy not installed
Executed command: ./configure
checking for sqlite3 files in default path... not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the sqlite distribution from http://www.sqlite.org
Solution
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
Success output
Generating files
configure: creating ./config.status
creating main/internal_functions.c
creating main/internal_functions_cli.c
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| License: |
| This software is subject to the PHP License, available in this |
| distribution in the file LICENSE. By continuing this installation |
| process, you are bound by the terms of this license agreement. |
| If you do not agree with the terms of this license, you must abort |
| the installation process at this point. |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Thank you for using PHP.
config.status: creating php7.spec
config.status: creating main/build-defs.h
config.status: creating scripts/phpize
config.status: creating scripts/man1/phpize.1
config.status: creating scripts/php-config
config.status: creating scripts/man1/php-config.1
config.status: creating sapi/cli/php.1
config.status: creating sapi/phpdbg/phpdbg.1
config.status: creating sapi/cgi/php-cgi.1
config.status: creating ext/phar/phar.1
config.status: creating ext/phar/phar.phar.1
config.status: creating main/php_config.h
config.status: executing default commands