<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Unix/Solaris installs</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Installation" HREF="installation.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Unix/OpenBSD installs" HREF="install.openbsd.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Installation on UNIX systems" HREF="install.unix.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="install.openbsd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 3. Installation</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="install.unix.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="install.solaris" ></A >Unix/Solaris installs</H1 ><P > This section contains notes and hints specific to installing PHP on Solaris systems. </P ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="install.solaris.required" ></A >Required software</H2 ><P > Solaris installs often lack C compilers and their related tools. The required software is as follows: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > gcc (recommended, other C compilers may work) </P ></LI ><LI ><P > make </P ></LI ><LI ><P > flex </P ></LI ><LI ><P > bison </P ></LI ><LI ><P > m4 </P ></LI ><LI ><P > autoconf </P ></LI ><LI ><P > automake </P ></LI ><LI ><P > perl </P ></LI ><LI ><P > gzip </P ></LI ><LI ><P > tar </P ></LI ><LI ><P > GNU sed </P ></LI ></UL > In addition, you will need to install (and possibly compile) any additional software specific to your configuration, such as Oracle or MySQL. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="install.solaris.packages" ></A >Using Packages</H2 ><P > You can simplify the Solaris install process by using pkgadd to install most of your needed components. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="install.openbsd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="install.unix.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Unix/OpenBSD installs</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="installation.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Installation on UNIX systems</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >