<?xml version="1.0"?> <html> <body> <h1><a name="installation">libvirt-php Installation</a></h1> <ul id="toc"></ul> <h2><a name="compiling">Compiling a release tarball</a></h2> <p> libvirt-php is using the standard configure/make/make install steps: </p> <pre> $ gunzip -c libvirt-php-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar xvf - $ cd libvirt-php-x.x.x $ ./configure</pre> <p> The <i>configure</i> script can be given options to change its default behaviour. </p> <p> To get the complete list of the options it can take, pass it the <i>--help</i> option like this: </p> <pre> $ ./configure <i>--help</i></pre> <p> When you have determined which options you want to use (if any), continue the process. </p> <p> Note the use of <b>sudo</b> with the <i>make install</i> command below. Using sudo is only required when installing to a location your user does not have write access to. Installing to a system location is a good example of this. </p> <p> If you are installing to a location that your user <i>does</i> have write access to, then you can instead run the <i>make install</i> command without putting <b>sudo</b> before it. </p> <pre> $ ./configure <i>[possible options]</i> $ make $ <b>sudo</b> <i>make install</i></pre> <p> By this command you'll have the libvirt-php installed on your system. </p> <h2><a name="building">Building from a GIT checkout</a></h2> <p> The libvirt-php build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command, passing the extra arguments as for configure. As an example, to do a complete build and install it into your home directory run: </p> <pre> $ ./autogen.sh $ make $ <b>sudo</b> make install</pre> </body> </html>