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Installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on Mac OS X Lion

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The APC extension should be a straightforward PECL install, but sadly it does not work on Mac OS X Lion. Attempting to install will result in make errors similar to the following:

In file included from /private/tmp/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /private/tmp/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:37: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:38: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/php/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:44: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘pcre’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:393: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘pcre’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c: In function ‘apc_regex_compile_array’:
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:454: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:454: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:455: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:455: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c: In function ‘apc_regex_match_array’:
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:487: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:487: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:488: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
/private/tmp/APC/apc.c:488: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
make: *** [apc.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed

Thankfully, the solution is simple. To being with, make sure you have Xcode installed. If you have xCode 4.3 or above, make sure you have the command line tools installed.

APC requires PCRE libraries and header files to be available, so we can download and install these from source:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Next, we can install the APC extension using the normal PECL route:

sudo pecl install apc

Confirm that you have the following line in your php.ini file:

extension=apc.so

Restart Apache, if required:

sudo apachectl graceful

You should now have APC available, and you can confirm this by looking at your phpinfo output:

APC PHP info

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Install memcached PHP extension on OS X Snow Leopard

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Memories

memcached is a very useful memory object caching system, which can be used to increase the performance of your dynamic scripts by caching database calls.

This guide will explain how to install the memcached system, including the PHP extension, on Mac OS X 10.6.

Xcode

The Xcode package installs the necessary versions of tools like autoconf which is needed during the PHP extension compilation process. Make sure you have Xcode 3.2 installed; the install package is available on the Snow Leopard install DVD under the “Optional Installs” folder.

libevent

libevent is a pre-requisite for memcached.

  • cd /tmp; curl -O http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
  • tar zxvf libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
  • cd libevent-1.4.12-stable
  • ./configure; make
  • sudo make install

memcached

memcached is the daemon responsible for actually storing and retrieving arbitrary objects for your applications.

  • cd /tmp; curl -O http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
  • tar zxvf memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
  • cd memcached-1.4.1
  • ./configure; make
  • sudo make install

libmemcached

libmemcached is the shared library that will allow clients, in this case PHP, access the memcached daemon.

  • Download libmemcached, move to /tmp and unpack
  • cd libmemcached-0.31
  • ./configure; make
  • sudo make install

php extension

Now we are ready to prepare the PHP extension to memcached, which is available from pecl.

  • cd /tmp; pecl download memcached
  • gzip -d < memcached-1.0.0.tgz | tar -xvf -
  • cd memcached-1.0.0; phpize

You should see output similar to the following:

Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20090626
Zend Module Api No: 20090626
Zend Extension Api No: 220090626

  • ./configure; make
  • sudo make install

On a successful install, you will get the following message:

Installing shared extensions: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/

Modify your php.ini configuration file and make sure you have the following line included:

extension = memcached.so

You can then restart your Apache server:

  • sudo apachectl restart

to make the memcached functionality available in your scripts.

memcached php extension

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