Compiling a new library

You definitely need header files

Andrey

Michel JORDA wrote:

Thanks for your help everybody ! it seems that the "better" way i found
is

cd <mydirectory>
phpize
autoconf
./configure
make
make install

assuming that php is installed in the machine. I dont think the src are
needed.
Thanks for your help

Michel

Andrey Hristov php@hristov.com wrote:

Michel JORDA wrote: > Hi everybody > I Have to compile a library (namely,
a payment library) and the bank > release a .c source. Therefore I need to
make and compile it, but they > mention that > "you need to install the
php-devel package in order to compile"... > what should I download > - on
my macosx > - and on my linux > to compile that ? > Thanks for your help >
MJ > Hi, you may get PHP sources from www.php.net . Then untar in some
directory. Then you need to create the skeleton of your extension by
either executing ext/ext_skel.sh or using PEAR's module for doing that.
Then you need to edit your config.m4 which will be under ext/xyz/config.m4
(xyz is the name of the extension). Then re-run ./buidlconf . After that
just use configure (configure --help | less should show your extension).
For compiling - make. Every time you change sth in config.m4 you have to
re-run buildconf. There is a way to build only a specific directory with
phpize but then you need to have this php-devel package or to have
installed from source with make install.

HTH, Andrey