<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction to PECL Installations</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="install.pecl.html">Installation of PECL extensions</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="install.pecl.downloads.html">Downloading PECL extensions</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="install.pecl.html">Installation of PECL extensions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="install.pecl.intro" class="sect1"> <h2 class="title">Introduction to PECL Installations</h2> <p class="simpara"> <a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> is a repository of PHP extensions that are made available to you via the <a href="http://pear.php.net/" class="link external">» PEAR</a> packaging system. This section of the manual is intended to demonstrate how to obtain and install PECL extensions. </p> <p class="simpara"> These instructions assume <em>/your/phpsrcdir/</em> is the path to the PHP source distribution, and that <em>extname</em> is the name of the PECL extension. Adjust accordingly. These instructions also assume a familiarity with the <a href="http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.users.commandline.cli.php" class="link external">» pear command</a>. The information in the PEAR manual for the <em>pear</em> command also applies to the <em>pecl</em> command. </p> <p class="simpara"> To be useful, a shared extension must be built, installed, and loaded. The methods described below provide you with various instructions on how to build and install the extensions, but they do not automatically load them. Extensions can be loaded by adding an <a href="ini.core.html#ini.extension" class="link">extension</a> directive to the <var class="filename">php.ini</var> file, or through the use of the <span class="function"><a href="function.dl.html" class="function">dl()</a></span> function. </p> <p class="simpara"> When building PHP modules, it's important to have known-good versions of the required tools (autoconf, automake, libtool, etc.) See the <a href="http://www.php.net/git.php" class="link external">» Anonymous Git Instructions</a> for details on the required tools, and required versions. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="install.pecl.html">Installation of PECL extensions</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="install.pecl.downloads.html">Downloading PECL extensions</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="install.pecl.html">Installation of PECL extensions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
