PHP compilation errors

Some PHP compilation errors you may encounter while configuring PHP and their fixes:

checking for BZip2 support… yes
checking for BZip2 in default path… not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the BZip2 distribution

Fix: yum install bzip2-devel

checking for cURL support… yes
checking if we should use cURL for url streams… no
checking for cURL in default path… not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the libcurl distribution -
easy.h should be in <curl-dir>/include/curl/

Fix: yum install curl-devel

checking for curl_multi_strerror in -lcurl… yes
checking for QDBM support… no
checking for GDBM support… no
checking for NDBM support… no
configure: error: DBA: Could not find necessary header file(s).

Fix: yum install db4-devel

checking for fabsf… yes
checking for floorf… yes
configure: error: jpeglib.h not found.
checking for fabsf… yes
checking for floorf… yes
checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg… yes
configure: error: png.h not found.

Fix: yum install libpng-devel

checking for png_write_image in -lpng… yes
If configure fails try –with-xpm-dir=<DIR>
configure: error: freetype.h not found.

Fix: Reconfigure your PHP with the following option.
–with-xpm-dir=/usr

checking for png_write_image in -lpng… yes
configure: error: libXpm.(a|so) not found.

Fix: yum install libXpm-devel

checking for bind_textdomain_codeset in -lc… yes
checking for GNU MP support… yes
configure: error: Unable to locate gmp.h

Fix: yum install gmp-devel

checking for utf8_mime2text signature… new
checking for U8T_DECOMPOSE…
configure: error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing. This should not happen. Check config.log for additional information.

Fix: yum install libc-client-devel

checking for LDAP support… yes, shared
checking for LDAP Cyrus SASL support… yes
configure: error: Cannot find ldap.h

Fix: yum install openldap-devel

checking for mysql_set_character_set in -lmysqlclient… yes
checking for mysql_stmt_next_result in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for Oracle Database OCI8 support… no
checking for unixODBC support… configure: error: ODBC header file ‘/usr/include/sqlext.h’ not found!

Fix:  yum install unixODBC-devel

checking for PostgreSQL support for PDO… yes, shared
checking for pg_config… not found
configure: error: Cannot find libpq-fe.h. Please specify correct PostgreSQL installation path

Fix: yum install postgresql-devel

checking for sqlite 3 support for PDO… yes, shared
checking for PDO includes… (cached) /usr/local/src/php-5.3.7/ext
checking for sqlite3 files in default path… not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the sqlite3 distribution

Fix: yum install sqlite-devel

checking for utsname.domainname… yes
checking for PSPELL support… yes
configure: error: Cannot find pspell

Fix:  yum install aspell-devel

checking whether to enable UCD SNMP hack… yes
checking for default_store.h… no
checking for kstat_read in -lkstat… no
checking for snmp_parse_oid in -lsnmp… no
checking for init_snmp in -lsnmp… no
configure: error: SNMP sanity check failed. Please check config.log for more information.

Fix: yum install net-snmp-devel

checking whether to enable XMLWriter support… yes, shared
checking for xml2-config path… (cached) /usr/bin/xml2-config
checking whether libxml build works… (cached) yes
checking for XSL support… yes, shared
configure: error: xslt-config not found. Please reinstall the libxslt >= 1.1.0 distribution

Fix: yum install libxslt-devel

configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.
yum install libxml2-devel
checking for PCRE headers location… configure: error: Could not find pcre.h in /usr

Fix:  yum install pcre-devel