PECL memcache and PHP on Mac OS X Leopard

Wow, has it really been that long since I’ve written here? I really need to do better.

So tonight I ran into an interesting issue this evening in configuring PECL memcache to run on my Macintosh. To give you a bit of background, I use the built-in copy of Apache, but with PHP (current 5.2.8) compiled from source since the version in Leopard is old and I needed some things that it didn’t provice. After that was installed with no problems, I went to the ext/memcache-3.0.4 directory to compile memcache as so:

> phpize
> ./configure
> make
> make install

Then added it to php.ini as an extension and restarted apache. But it didn’t work. The information returned from phpinfo() still indicated it had not been installed. So I checked the logs and found this little gem:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/memcache.so’ – (null) in Unknown on line 0

Okay. WTF does that mean? While Googling around for an answer, I came across this page. According to it,it’s a strong indication that you’ve likely compiled against the wrong architecture! This is an indication that the shared extension is causing a segmentation fault. Fortunately, there is a solution – force configure to use the right architecture.

> make clean
> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp” CCFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe” CXXFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe” LDFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -bind_at_load” ./configure
> make
> make install

Now restart apache. You should have working memcache!