PHP 7.0.6 Released

    Compiling PECL extensions statically into PHP

    You might find that you need to build a PECL extension statically into your PHP binary. To do this, you'll need to place the extension source under the /your/phpsrcdir/ext/ directory and tell the PHP build system to regenerate its configure script. 

    $ cd /your/phpsrcdir/ext
$ pecl download extname
$ gzip -d < extname.tgz | tar -xvf -
$ mv extname-x.x.x extname

    This will result in the following directory:


    /your/phpsrcdir/ext/extname

    From here, force PHP to rebuild the configure script, and then build PHP as normal:


    $ cd /your/phpsrcdir
    $ rm configure
    $ ./buildconf --force
    $ ./configure --help
    $ ./configure --with-extname --enable-someotherext --with-foobar
    $ make
    $ make install

    Note: To run the 'buildconf' script you need autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4+ (newer versions of autoconf may work, but are not supported).

    Whether --enable-extname or --with-extname is used depends on the extension. Typically an extension that does not require external libraries uses --enable. To be sure, run the following after buildconf:


    $ ./configure --help | grep extname

    User Contributed Notes

    anthon at piwik dot org
    3 years ago
    Some extensions cannot be statically linked (e.g., xdebug).
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