[Mediaman_12]

I am doing some Web dev and I could do with PHP installing on to the webserver on my iMac.
But I run in to problems whatever way I try to install it.
first I tried Mark Liyanage's pre made installer that uses the OSX installer app, this gets to the end then fails (I suspect it's because it's built for PPC not intel).
I then try this method from Apples ADC site. I download the PHP source and get to the ./configure --with-apxs part, this fails with the following message in the terminal

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

. Maybe the source code is a 'windows' version?
So then I find Get DarwinPorts which lists a Darwin version of PHP. First you have to install an app to run there installers, there is no binary for Intel Mac's so yo have to get the source and build your own. I get the source extract it and again get to the ./configure && make && sudo make install bit, again it fails, the terminal has a bit more to say this time

checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin8.5.1
checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin8.5.1
checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin8.5.1
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

and I can't find config.log to see what info that contains.
I have run a .PHP file with

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

in it but it just gets displayed as text in Safari, even though 'Personal Web Sharing' is on in the control panel, so there is no version of PHP currently running.

[Mediaman_12]

I hadn't Edited the HTTP.conf file, I will live with the older version of PHP on Tiger.

[Mithras]

I've hit that problem compiling something else on my MBP. I worked around it, but maybe try downloading the latest autoconf script?

[york28]

I recently had to deal with this. Here's what you do:
1. Download and install Fink source code, and install normally. The Installers are not yet Universal.
2. Following the instructions on this page, install the required libraries through Fink. If they aren't available, or won't build, make a note and move on.
3. Download the PHP source code
4. Install using the tutorial above. You will need to modify the command passed to configure slightly to account for all the libraries being in /sw, and also to remove the ones that reference libraries you don't have (from #2)

This worked fine on an Intel iMac, using PHP 5.12.

Good luck.

PS. I couldn't get Darwinports to build, but you could also go that route.

Also, make sure Xcode was installed OK.

[besson3c]

I suggest using DarwinPorts. It will automate this install process for you, and assist you with upgrading the software once installed.

Software like this standard fare on Linux/Unix distributions such as Fedora/Redhat/Debian/Gentoo/FreeBSD, etc.