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Building PHP With MacPorts Apache2 and MySQL

In the past I’ve always installed Apache2 via MacPorts, MySQL from source or binary, and built PHP from source. While putting this all together on Snow Leopard, I decided to install MySQL from MacPorts as well:

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$ sudo port -v install apache2 mysql5-server

After everything was built and installed, I then installed the dependencies I needed for PHP 5.3 from MacPorts (openssl, mcrypt, libxml, etc.). My full configure command is:

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./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-apxs2=/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php5 \
--disable-cgi \
--enable-bcmath \
--with-gd \
--with-curl \
--enable-exif \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mysqli \
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-zlib-dir=/opt/local \
--with-openssl=/opt/local \
--with-mcrypt=/opt/local \
--with-mhash=/opt/local \
--with-freetype-dir=/opt/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local \
--with-png-dir=/opt/local \
--with-libxml-dir=/opt/local \
--with-xsl=/opt/local \
--with-gettext=/opt/local \
--with-bz2 \
--with-iconv=/opt/local

Notice –with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql? No matter how many paths I tried I could not get PHP to con- figure with MySQL. Apparently the MacPort changes the layout for some reason. My solution (inspired by a 2007 discussion on the MacPorts mailing list) involved making a few symlinks:

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$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mysql
$ cd /usr/local/mysql
$ sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/mysql5 include
$ sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/mysql5 lib
$ sudo mkdir bin
$ cd bin
$ sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/mysql_config5 mysql_config

Once the symlinks were in place, PHP configured without error.