PHP: Compiling shared PECL extensions with the pecl command

Compiling shared PECL extensions with phpize

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Compiling shared PECL extensions with the pecl command

PECL makes it easy to create shared PHP extensions. Using the » pecl command, do the following:

$ pecl install extname

This will download the source for extname, compile, and install extname.so into your extension_dir. extname.so may then be loaded via php.ini

By default, the pecl command will not install packages that are marked with the alpha or beta state. If no stable packages are available, you may install a beta package using the following command:

$ pecl install extname-beta

You may also install a specific version using this variant:

$ pecl install extname-0.1

Note:
After enabling the extension in php.ini, restarting the web service is required for the changes to be picked up.

Compiling shared PECL extensions with phpize

Installing a PHP extension on Windows

[edit] Last updated: Fri, 10 Feb 2012

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ktcox at mail dot com 07-Apr-2011 02:22


The Arch Linux package that contains PECL is 'php-pear'



# pacman -S php-pear

zir dot echo at gmail dot com 04-Jun-2008 08:43


Install pecl for gentoo:



emerge dev-php/PEAR-PEAR

pedro dot fonini at gmail dot com 30-Mar-2008 02:27


to use the pecl, pear, or phpize commands in fedora, install the php-devel package:

$ yum install php-devel

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