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Build and install APC extension on Mac OSX 10

By Luc  //  Mac, Php, Programming, System  //  5 Comments

If you tried to install the APC extension on the MAC and got the following error:

pecl mac error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’

The problem is that APC depends on the PCRE library and we need to install it before compiling APC. Here is how to fix it!

  • Open a TERMINAL session,  type :  mkdir  temp
  • Head up to this page and download a PCRE library (try to use the latest one). I took pcre-8.12.zip, put the file inside the temp directory
  • uncompress the PCRE archive via Finder (or any other way)


cd  pcre-x.xx replace x with the version number (example: cd  pcre-8.12)
./configure
make
sudo make install

  • now download the latest APC release (link here)
  • uncompress the APC archive via finder  (or terminal by typing    tar zxf  APC-X-XX  replace X with archive name and version number )
  • type

cd ~/temp/APC-3.1.9    (change the version number if you're using something different)
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

you should see something similar to this when it’s done compiling

Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/
Installing header files:          /usr/include/php/

 

Modify your php.ini file to have the extension loaded at php startup

  • Open /private/etc/php.ini   (in Finder, select GO menu, select GO TO FOLDER and type /private/etc)
  • add this line in the Dynamic extensions area

extension=/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/apc.so

Restart the web server (reboot your machine if your lazy, or go into the System preferences, click on Sharing, un-select Web sharing , wait a few seconds and select it again )

You’re done, congrats!

 

Note:

There is a bug in version APC 3.1.9  :-)

if you get error

Fatal error: Unknown: apc_fcntl_unlock failed: in Unknown on line 0

Relax! just modify the file apc_lock.h inside the APC folder you created. Edit the following line around lines 155-160

Find the following:

# define apc_lck_rdunlock(a) apc_fcntl_unlock(&a TSRMLS_CC)

Replace by the following

# define apc_lck_rdunlock(a) apc_fcntl_unlock(a TSRMLS_CC)

 

Recompile APC by doing:

cd ~/temp/APC-x-xx (replace X with version number) make clean phpize ./configure make sudo make install

And restart your web server! Too easy !  enjoy!

 

 

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Author: Luc Raymond

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5 Comments to “Build and install APC extension on Mac OSX 10”

  • chris August 7, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    thanks for the tip, this worked perfectly

    Reply
  • Julien August 15, 2011 at 1:35 am

    Great tutorial except that a “./configure” is missing between “phpize” and “make” in APC installation in the first part.

    Reply
    • Luc August 15, 2011 at 8:00 am

      you’re right! merci Julien!

      Reply
  • Brock Peters December 14, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    Wow, these are great instructions. It totally worked. That’s the first time I’ve ever compiled an extension for PHP. This was a great tutorial for me go through. I learned so much.

    Thanks again.

    Reply
  • Daniel February 7, 2012 at 3:13 am

    When expanding APC-3.1.9.tgz with the Finder you get a folder called APC-3.1.9 which contains another folder called APC-3.1.9 and a file called package.xml. You need to do a cd to ~/temp/APC-3.1.9/APC-3.1.9 before you do phpize otherwise it will not work. Except for this, this is great and APC got installed. Thanks a lot, now up to this progress bar.

    Reply

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