17 thoughts on “Installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on Mac OS X Lion”

1. Achim Sperling April 3, 2012 at 11:01 am

   Thanks for this short install howto. I was running in a lot of errors along this short-trip anyways and wanted to drop a note here.

   First I had no C-compiler command line tool.
   configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
   To solve this I installed XCode 4 through the AppStore. In the preferences dialog you’ll find the tab “Downloads”. Go ahead and install the command line tools.

   Then there was no autoconf when trying to install APC.
   Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.
   My solution to this one was:
   brew install autoconf

   Well, it was getting better and better. XCode 4 brought me a new git version, a
   brew update
   That I had to do before resulted in an error:
   Error: Failed while executing git pull http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git master
   Found a solution as well:
   cd `brew --prefix`
git fetch https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD
   This does an update as well, just not using the brew update script.
   Finally I did:
   brew install autoconf
sudo pecl install apc

   I had to add the extension to php.ini manually, but now it’s working.

   Hopefully this is going to save some of you some time.

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   1. Glen Post authorApril 3, 2012 at 11:12 am

      Thanks for the information. I’ve added a note to the post about needing the xCode command line tools for compilation.

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2. Uri April 12, 2012 at 2:25 pm

   Hi!
   Great post, very helpful..

   Maybe it will help to add a check for the existence of PCRE on the computer and the version before installing it

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3. Rob Ganly May 3, 2012 at 4:04 pm

   I was having the same error on OSX Lion until I found your article, good work and thanks!

   Rob Ganly

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4. Mark May 11, 2012 at 11:59 pm

   As an alternative, brew install apc works too.

   Follow the instructions to add to php.ini and restart apache.
   
[apc]
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/apc/3.1.9/apc.so"
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_segments=1
apc.shm_size=64M
apc.ttl=7200
apc.user_ttl=7200
apc.num_files_hint=1024
apc.mmap_file_mask=/tmp/apc.3.1.9
apc.enable_cli=1


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5. John August 3, 2012 at 2:01 pm

   Thank you, works like a charm.

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6. Robbie Smith April 17, 2013 at 8:06 pm

   I did as you said, no install problems, even added the [apc] section to my php.ini file, i’ve rebooted apache at least 4 times on my mac and I still cannot see the apc config nor get the apc_ functions to work in php. I’m on XAMP. What else am I missing?

   -Robbie

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7. Johncar May 18, 2013 at 10:52 pm

   Thanks a lot! it worked great after installing PECL to enable the installation of the APC extension using the normal PECL route:

   –> Installing PEAR and PECL:
   sudo php /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar
   pear config-set php_ini /private/etc/php.ini
   pecl config-set php_ini /private/etc/php.ini

   –> Installing APC:
   sudo pecl install apc

   John

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8. Miloš June 13, 2013 at 1:50 pm

   Worked flawlessly — thank you!

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9. baluga July 6, 2013 at 9:15 am

   -bash: pecl: command not found

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10. Alberto December 10, 2013 at 12:12 am

    Baluga, try locating the right path to PECL, like this for instance :

    “sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/pecl install apc”

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11. Charley January 13, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    I had to use the following to get APC installed on my system:

    [path_to_php]/bin/phpize && CFLAGS=-m32 CPPFLAGS=-m32 CCASFLAGS=-m32 ./configure –with-php-config=[path_to_php]/bin/php-config && make

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12. Myuing March 21, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    During pecl install:
    2 warnings and 6 errors generated.
    make: *** [apc_compile.lo] Error 1
    ERROR: `make’ failed

    …….

    great…. piece of useless shit
    Error this, error that… I had to find solutions for every single fucking line to run without a fistful of errors! It’s under Mavericks. What the fuck should one do to install a fucking extension? I have been fucking with this whole day long while I’ve installed 2 win-based + 3 linux systems without a hassle (each one of them with the same php version and modules)
    Pathetic

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    1. Glen Scott Post authorMarch 21, 2014 at 4:00 pm

       I’ve just managed to successfully install APC on Mavericks 10.9.2 system by doing the following:

       * Install Apple’s Command Line Tools (https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action)
       * Download and install autoconf (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz)
       * Download and install PCRE (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/latest/download?source=files)
       * Download and unpack APC package (http://pecl.php.net/get/APC)
       * Inside the APC package dir run the following commands
       * phpize
       * ./configure
       * make
       * sudo make install

       This installs the shared extension inside /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/

       Enable it by including the following line in your /etc/php.ini file:

       extension=apc.so

       Restart Apache, and bingo.

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13. fred February 7, 2015 at 8:40 am

    Hi Glen,

    I tried the same with Yosemite 10.10.2 (as you explained in your comment from March 21st 2014), but it doesn’t work. I get 2 warnings and 6 errors when executing the make command on APC.

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14. Guillaume March 12, 2015 at 11:51 am

    Hi , great toturial
    In response to Fred
    I had the same issue and it turns out that APC is not compatible with PHP 5.5 (i assume u have it as well)
    check this out http://serverfault.com/questions/533226/error-installing-apc-in-apache2-vps-with-php-5-5-1

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15. Bhaskar May 25, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    Hi,

    I am not able to make apc work with High Sierra and PHP 7.1.14. I have done everything.

    Below is the output for php -i | grep apc

    PHP Warning: Method apc_store() cannot be a NULL function in Unknown on line 0
    PHP Warning: apc: Unable to register functions, unable to load in Unknown on line 0
    Warning: Method apc_store() cannot be a NULL function in Unknown on line 0
    Warning: apc: Unable to register functions, unable to load in Unknown on line 0
    apcu
    apc.coredump_unmap => Off => Off
    apc.enable_cli => On => On
    apc.enabled => On => On
    apc.entries_hint => 4096 => 4096
    apc.gc_ttl => 3600 => 3600
    apc.mmap_file_mask => no value => no value
    apc.preload_path => no value => no value
    apc.serializer => php => php
    apc.shm_segments => 1 => 1
    apc.shm_size => 64M => 64M
    apc.slam_defense => On => On
    apc.smart => 0 => 0
    apc.ttl => 7200 => 7200
    apc.use_request_time => On => On
    apc.writable => /tmp => /tmp

    And output of phpinfo() also shows apcu is enabled.

    But when I run my application, below error gets printed:

    [Fri May 25 18:43:30.523133 2018] [php7:error] [pid 1693] [client 10.146.5.127:54542] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function apc_store()

    This is the code snippet which adds data into the apc_store:

    public static function add(LoggedInUser $loggedInUser) {
    if (!is_null($loggedInUser) && !is_null($loggedInUser->getUserData()) &&
    !is_null($loggedInUser->getUserData()->userId)) {
    apc_store($loggedInUser->getUserData()->userId, $loggedInUser, 60);
    }
    }

    Can someone kindly help on this.

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