Building PHP with mysql support on CentOS

[John Smith]

Can someone please help me build php with mysql support on CentOS. Have
installed MySql and that works okay. I have downloaded the latest version of
php and tried to build it but I keep getting errors about missing function
mysql_connect() . This appears to be caused by not having extensions=mysq l in
the php.ini file. However when I build php it does not make a mysql.so file,
where does this come from? I have tried using the configure --with-mysql but
it still does not generate it. I have managed to get it from another
distribution but it does not work correctly due to incorrect versions of
shared libraries.
How do you build the mysql.so file?

Thanks

Jon

[David Haynes]

Re: Building PHP with mysql support on CentOS

John Smith wrote:[color=blue]
> Can someone please help me build php with mysql support on CentOS. Have
> installed MySql and that works okay. I have downloaded the latest version of
> php and tried to build it but I keep getting errors about missing function
> mysql_connect() . This appears to be caused by not having extensions=mysq l in
> the php.ini file. However when I build php it does not make a mysql.so file,
> where does this come from? I have tried using the configure --with-mysql but
> it still does not generate it. I have managed to get it from another
> distribution but it does not work correctly due to incorrect versions of
> shared libraries.
> How do you build the mysql.so file?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jon[/color]

Disclaimer: I use Fedora Core 4

With Fedora, the --with-mysql (or --with-mysqli) needs to point to the
mysql_config program (typically in the bin directory of mysql).
So, my directive is:
--with-mysqli=/opt/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

-david-

[John Smith]

Re: Building PHP with mysql support on CentOS

Thanks for this, i have tried this with the same outcome, we seem to be
missing mysql.so

Thanks

Jon
"David Haynes" <david.haynes2@ sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:iIeRf.3866 4$Gz4.16414@fe1 3.usenetserver. com...[color=blue]
> John Smith wrote:[color=green]
>> Can someone please help me build php with mysql support on CentOS. Have
>> installed MySql and that works okay. I have downloaded the latest version
>> of php and tried to build it but I keep getting errors about missing
>> function mysql_connect() . This appears to be caused by not having
>> extensions=mysq l in the php.ini file. However when I build php it does
>> not make a mysql.so file, where does this come from? I have tried using
>> the configure --with-mysql but it still does not generate it. I have
>> managed to get it from another distribution but it does not work
>> correctly due to incorrect versions of shared libraries.
>> How do you build the mysql.so file?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jon[/color]
>
> Disclaimer: I use Fedora Core 4
>
> With Fedora, the --with-mysql (or --with-mysqli) needs to point to the
> mysql_config program (typically in the bin directory of mysql).
> So, my directive is:
> --with-mysqli=/opt/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
>
> -david-
>[/color]

[David Haynes]

Re: Building PHP with mysql support on CentOS

John Smith wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks for this, i have tried this with the same outcome, we seem to be
> missing mysql.so
>[/color]

Are you using a pre-packaged mysql or one you have built yourself?
If you are building it yourself, you should find the libraries in lib/mysql/

-david-