Problems installing PHP::Interpreter

astroboy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

Is anything special required to compile PHP::Interpreter - say PHP compiled with specific settings? I just configure then compiled PHP v5.1.6 with the following options:

./configure --enable-embed --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/
+bin/apxs
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Yet I can't get PHP::Interpreter to compile. During "make test" I get

make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "
+test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/1....................NOK 1
#   Failed test 'use PHP::Interpreter;'
#   in t/1.t at line 6.
#     Tried to use 'PHP::Interpreter'.
#     Error:  Can't load '/usr/local/downloads/PHP-Interpreter-1.0.1/b
+lib/arch/auto/PHP/Interpreter/Interpreter.so' for module PHP::Interpr
+eter: /usr/local/lib/libphp5.so: undefined symbol: ap_rwrite at /usr/
+local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
#  at (eval 3) line 2
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/1.t line 6.
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similar errors follow

I'm not a C programmer and don't know even where to start looking at this. Any advice appreciated

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Re: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by almut (Canon) on Apr 28, 2007 at 07:51 UTC
It appears your problem is related to having built PHP as an apache module (i.e. `--with-apxs`). You might find this thread interesting, in which the module's author states "I didn't mean to say that the embed SAPI and mod_php SAPI where fully mutually exclusive (though I wouldn't be shocked if that was the case). What is definitely mutually exclusive is building them at the same time in the same tree. The build process simply doesn't support that." How are you planning to use `PHP::Interpreter`? Do you actually need PHP as an apache module? As it looks, quite a bit of fiddling would be required in that case... If you're really determined, you might start without `--with-apxs`, and then, after all other problems have been resolved, come back to your original plan ;) Good luck anyway!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by astroboy (Chaplain) on Apr 28, 2007 at 19:55 UTC
Well I have a Perl CMS that generates static files, which is in this instance are PHP (similar in intent to Bricolage, but on a much smaller scale). However, there is a new requirement, where some of the content needs to be dynamic, and the solution has been for the Perl backend to generate the files to disk and then use LWP to fetch the content via the webserver and then display it. This is pretty yucky and inefficient, so I figured PHP::Interpreter could be the solution. Since Apache is already installed with various other modules, I figured that it's too late to add PHP as a static build without building all other modules and Apache from scratch too, hence attempting to build it as an Apache module. However, I now see that the alternative to PHP::Interpreter, PHP, doesn't work with PHP built as an Apache module, so I guess the same reasoning applies in this instance...	[reply]
Re^3: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2008 at 23:33 UTC
astroboy, did you ever figure this problem out? i'm having the same problems running/compiling PHP interpreter (i'm trying to install Bricolage also) -Tony abiacco@formatdynamics.com	[reply]
Re^4: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by astroboy (Chaplain) on Jul 15, 2008 at 17:51 UTC
Re: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Apr 28, 2007 at 06:49 UTC
This is just a wild flailing stab in the dark PHP::Interpreter may require that you install php5 first... `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by astroboy (Chaplain) on Apr 28, 2007 at 19:56 UTC
Yep, that's what the first part of my post describes	[reply]
Re: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Apr 29, 2007 at 00:26 UTC
By default, PHP builds shared libraries; however, it seems that when you use `--enable-embed`, you have to specify type, either static or shared. The documentation wasn't clear about whether static or shared was default in this situation. I would rebuild PHP with `--enable-embed=shared` and see what happens. Good luck!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Problems installing PHP::Interpreter by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2009 at 13:53 UTC
I have solved the problem by installing a seperate php-instance. This is usefull in the case, when you need a normal php-installation. Get the source for php version 5.1.6, because the actual version generates some troubles. Configure the sources with the following command: `sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/embedphp --with-config-file-path= +/usr/local/embedphp/etc --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/embedp +hp/etc/php.d --enable-embed --enable-maintainer-zts --enable-dbase` [download] Compile the sources an install it. The right embedded libphp5.so library is found in /usr/local/embedphp/lib. Get the PHP::Interpreter sources and apply a patch to the Makefile.PL: patch: `87a88 > my $static_library_path = '-Wl,-rpath,'.catdir $prefix, "lib"; 88a90 > push @lddlflags, $static_library_path;` [download] This links the libphp5.so with a static path. The following commands create the Makefile and install the Module correctly: `sudo patch --verbose --backup Makefile.PL < patch sudo PHP_CONFIG="/usr/local/embedphp/bin/php-config" perl Makefile.PL sudo PHP_CONFIG="/usr/local/embedphp/bin/php-config" make sudo make test sudo make install` [download] I hope this will fix all problems. MfG	[reply] [d/l] [select]