[Jaelan]

Hey,
I'm pretty new to using a mac and in general, unix command line. I am trying to set up a webserver with apache2, mysql, and php with zip support.

I have used the packaging product iTools to get apache, mysql and php up and running, but I still cannot get the zip libraries.

Thus, my question is twofold.
First, I found that I first need to download and install zziplib.
I downloaded the zziplib to my php/extensions folder. I then ran tar -xjvf on it and it unpacked fine.
Next, I went into the directory and ran ./configure && make && make check && make install.

Unfortunately that gives me an error on zip.lo, with a lot of messages saying: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Can someone help me figure out how to install zziplib?

And, I'll have to jump ahead of myself to ask the second question...
What do I do to get php configured with zip support using this newly installed zziplib?

Any help is welcome

Jaelan

[Gavin]

Are you on tiger or panther? that may make a difference, could be a gcc-4.0 thing.

half of my compile problems are solved by getting the includes right. you may have to tell it exactly where the library files , etc. are. Go through the read me and look for how it passes paths to configure, like:
.configure -L/usr/local or ./configure --with-libs=/usr/local/lib , etc.

as for compiling php you usually need to recompile it with a config flag to tell it to turn on the module and where to find it.
something like this:

--enable-zip --with-zziplib-dir=/usr
or
--with-zziplib=/path/to/zzip...

that is not the real line - I'm guessing here - you'll have to dig through the INSTALL file or the online php docs to learn the actual syntax.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/configure.php
or maybe this
./configure --help


good luck

[Jaelan]

Thanks for the reply.
I was attempting to put it on Tiger, so it might be that gcc-4 issue. It's kind of funny. I've searched for 2 days on this and in the span of 2 hours, I've heard 2 comments dealing w/ tiger and zziplib.
I attempted to run ./configure --libdir=/usr/local/lib, but it still runs into an error on make. What lib directory should I pass to it. Aka, what libraries might it be looking for?

Hopefully, zziplib can be put on tiger.

Jaelan