I see. Will compile PHP myself then, but this will need a while... thanks anyway for the tutorial. I suggest that we store this in a test-readme since we have no wiki yet.
Cheers On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Knut Urdalen <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian Grobmeier wrote: > > wanted to install xdebug on OSX 10.4 and 10.5. It fails with syntax > errors. I am assuming it happens cause i use MAMP :-) Can you tell > what enviroment are you using? Selfcompiled PHP i guess? > > > You need to compile Xdebug on Mac (binaries are only available for Windows) > and in order to do that you need to have necessary tools and header files > installed. > > The basic requirements for compiling PHP extensions is the same as for PHP > itself (see: http://www.php.net/anoncvs.php) > > I prefer MacPorts [1] as my package manager on OS X since that's the easiest > way to get all needed tools and header files. There's too many tutorials on > this [2] so I won't go into details. But at least you will have to do this: > > $ sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 +pear > $ sudo port install php5-devel > > Some of the basic tools like gcc etc is installed with Xcode, but most of > what you need is also available in MacPorts. > > Knut > > [1] http://www.macports.org > [2] http://2tbsp.com/content/install_apache_2_and_php_5_macports > >
