Hi Nikita, I am really happy to read your email.
As you may have noticed I recently started participating on this list. About that time I tried to get PHP compiled and working locally, and I failed miserably. I decided I would participate on the list for a while and maybe after some time I could ask for help getting it compiled on my Mac and in a Docker container. > Anyone interested in doing this? > I would be very willing to do this, assuming I can get a screenshare or two from someone to get unstuck when I get stuck, or at least get a response from private messages or email about those sticking points. Also, I think it would be really good to have someone who does not already know how to get it working to write the documentations, vs. someone who has known how for so long they have forgotten what questions newbies would have. -Mike > On Sep 15, 2019 at 2:49 PM, <Nikita Popov <mailto:nikita....@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Our build instructions in > > https://github.com/php/php-src#building-php-source-code are currently a bit > > bare... they show the basic "./buildconf && ./configure && make" cycle, but > > everyone who actually tries this will quickly find out that there is a lot > > more to building PHP... > > > > Every time I compile PHP on a new system, I have to go through a pretty > > long cycle of ./configure --xxx, wait until there is an error, "sudo apt > > install libxxx-dev" and so on. > > > > It would be great if someone could write up the required "apt get" and > > "./configure" line to get a "reasonably large" build of PHP on a popular > > Linux distro like Ubuntu 18.04, so this can be included in the README. > > Something similar for MacOS would probably also be useful, where things are > > even more complicated. > > > > Bonus points for also including how to set up MySQL and Postgres in a way > > that you can run mysqli/pdo_mysql and pgsql/pdo_pgsql tests. I think I lose > > a couple of hours every time I try to get this working. > > > > Anyone interested in doing this? > > > > Regards, > > Nikita >
