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Compiling shared PECL extensions with the pecl command

PECL makes it easy to create shared PHP extensions. Using the » pecl command, do the following:

$ pecl install extname

This will download the source for extname, compile, and install extname.so into the extension_dir. extname.so may then be loaded via php.ini.

By default, the pecl command will not install packages that are marked with the alpha or beta state. If no stable packages are available, a beta package may be installed using the following command:

$ pecl install extname-beta

A specific version may also be installed using this variant:

$ pecl install extname-0.1

Note:

After enabling the extension in php.ini, restarting the web service is required for the changes to be picked up.

User Contributed Notes

giulliano dot scatalon dot rossi at gmail dot com
4 years ago
To install the PECL on debian based linux distros (ubuntu, mint, kali, etc.)
Use the apitude command:

sudo apt-get install php-pear

I hope helped someone
ezekial aikle
1 year ago
Options to pass to configure (with -D or --configureoptions=) need to be specified this way in a Dockerfile RUN command:

RUN pecl install -D 'with-example-dir="/dir" enable-example-thing="yes"' package
or
RUN pecl install --configureoptions='with-example-dir="/dir" enable-example-thing="yes"' package

Otherwise, docker build might quote the command in a way that pecl doesn't parse correctly, and the build will fail with an error like this one:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: array_key_exists(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type array, null given in /usr/local/lib/php/PEAR/Builder.php:397
Bichis Paul
8 years ago
on Mageia Linux use urpmi

[afk@mageia5][~]$ sudo urpmi php-pear
ktcox at mail dot com
14 years ago
The Arch Linux package that contains PECL is 'php-pear'

# pacman -S php-pear
ericn at amazon dot com
11 years ago
To compile pecl extensions on Amazon Linux AMIs, follow the tutorial at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html and then install these additional required packages with the following command:

[ec2-user ~]$ sudo yum install php-devel zlib-devel curl-devel gcc

You should then be able to compile pecl extensions; for example, enter the following command to compile the pecl_http extension:

[ec2-user ~]$ sudo pecl install pecl_http
zir dot echo at gmail dot com
16 years ago
Install pecl for gentoo:

emerge dev-php/PEAR-PEAR
pedro dot fonini at gmail dot com
17 years ago
to use the pecl, pear, or phpize commands in fedora, install the php-devel package:
$ yum install php-devel
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