PHP 5.3 Version Installs     January 8 - 9, 2011
by CW Cyrix

Last Updated: 2011/11/20
[0424] Fixed horrible typo on Optional Tags.
[0424] Clarified Notes.
[0424] Added libraries and optional tags to the list.
[0424] Changed php-5.3.5 to php-5.3.x. (insert number here to reflect the
       release number.)
[0425] Removed duplicate -- tags from the list.
[0425] Added another example setup.
[1120] Detailed My Setups. It basically reflects the default Windows PHP
       installation.

-NOTES-
./configure does NOT seem to work in Ubuntu Desktop (as it works in Server),
but bash configure does. You also need to install build-essential to compile
these code in Ubuntu.

required tools:
gcc
bison

optional tools:
pcre
libxml2
libmcrypt
mcrypt
openssl
libssl
zlib
bzip2
libmhash
mhash
libtidy
libxslt
zlib
expat

...amongst other libraries.


For PHP version 5.3.x

Symlink first:
ln -s php-5.3.x php


My Setups

./configure --prefix=/home/ami-sapphire/php-5.3.5 \
--with-config-file-path=/home/ami-sapphire/php \
--with-config-file-path-scan=/home/ami-sapphire/php

./configure --prefix=/home/ami-sapphire/php-5.3.6 \
--with-config-file-path=/home/ami-sapphire/php \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-zip \
--with-mcrypt \
--with-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock \
--with-openssl \
--with-zlib \
--with-bz2 \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-ftp \
--with-mhash \
--with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
--enable-exif

My Libraries needed to install (Using Ubuntu 11.10 Server):
build-essential
libxml2-dev
libcurl4-openssl-dev
libbz2-dev
libmcrypt

---

Static:
./configure --prefix=/home/ami-sapphire/php-5.3.5 \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-zip \
--with-mcrypt \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock \
--with-openssl \
--with-zlib \
--with-config-file-path=/home/ami-sapphire/php \
--with-config-file-path-scan=/home/ami-sapphire/php

Shared:
./configure --prefix=/home/ami-sapphire/php-5.3.5 \
--enable-mbstring=shared \
--enable-zip=shared \
--with-mcrypt=shared \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock \
--with-openssl=shared \
--with-zlib=shared \
--with-config-file-path=/home/ami-sapphire/php \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/home/ami-sapphire/php

optional tags:
--disable-libxml
--disable-xml
--with-mysql=[DIR]
--with-mysql-sock=[DIR]
--with-mysqli=[DIR]
--with-mysqli=mysqlnd
--enable-bcmath
--enable-calendar
--enable-ftp
--enable-mbstring
--with-mcrypt=[DIR]
--with-mhash=[DIR]
--with-openssl=[DIR]
--with-pdo-mysql
--with-curl=[DIR]
--enable-exif
--with-gettext=[DIR]
--with-gd=[DIR]
  --with-jpeg-dir=[DIR]
  --with-png-dir=[DIR]
  --with-xpm-dir=[DIR]
  --enable-gd-native-ttf
--with-imap=[DIR]
--enable-intl
--with-ldap=[DIR]
--enable-soap
--enable-sockets
--with-sybase=[DIR]
--with-sybase-ct=[DIR]
--with-tidy
--with-xmlrpc=[DIR]
--with-xsl=[DIR]
--enable-wddx
  --with-libexpat-dir=[DIR]
--with-bz2=[DIR]
--enable-zip
--with-zlib=[DIR]

make
sudo make install


For more tags, type ./configure --help. Reading their manual at http://php.net
may help as well.

Notes:
You may want to add: /home/ami-sapphire/php-5.3.5/lib/php to your php.ini
include_path (replace php-5.3.5 with php due to symlink)