Comments on: Snow Leopard and PHP

By: george

george — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:53:16 +0000

the bit below worked for me. thanks for this page.

Thibaut said:
> My “libpq-fe.h” is in the /usr/local/mypostgres/include so I think the problem is with “pg_config” so I fixe the problem by setting “export PG_CONFIG=/path/path/pg_config”

By: Thibaut

Thibaut — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:52:33 +0000

Thanks for the tips but I steal have a problem when ./configure pdo_pgsql.

When you say “go to ext/pgsql” in the php5.3 source folder, I do the same with “ext/pdo_pgsql”
I run “phpize” and I try “./configure –with-pgsql=/usr/local/mypostgres”
After some work I got that:
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

My “libpq-fe.h” is in the /usr/local/mypostgres/include so I think the problem is with “pg_config” so I fixe the problem by setting “export PG_CONFIG=/path/path/pg_config”

I enable “pdo_pgsql.so” in my php.ini but pgsql support in PDO is not enable in phpinfo();

does anyone have any idea?

Thanks

By: Nev

Nev — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:04:47 +0000

Thank you so much for this – it worked flawlessly!

If you want to add in the PDO Postgres driver as well I found the following URL to be of great use:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61747/installing-pdo-drivers-for-postgresql-on-mac-using-zend-for-eclipse

By: Rocco

Rocco — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:30:55 +0000

Ok, finally it works! After three days of pain I did it!

By: Rocco

Rocco — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:24:08 +0000

Hi Philip, can you share on your site the pgsql.so and pdo_pgsql.so for snow leopard? I have some problems with libpq and i don’t know much about compiling stuffs….

Thank you

By: m

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:00:10 +0000

I’m up and running again thanks to your post.

Note to anybody who already has Postgres installed when they arrive here: I didn’t have to mess with Postgres (already installed via links below), I just went straight to the PHP instructions and installed the pgsql module.

Also, two posts that may be helpful for anybody going through this process with Snow Leopard right now:

[Postgres section here]
http://afreshcup.com/2009/09/02/migrating-to-snow-leopard-for-rails-development-a-definitive-guide/
[Above link points here for Leopard instructions that worked fine for me on Snow Leopard]
http://devoh.com/posts/2008/10/installing-postgresql-on-mac-os-x-10.5-leopard

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:44 +0000

You’re right. I did it again from the top and it works. Thanks!
It also works for pdo_pgsql.

By: Philip Hofstetter

Philip Hofstetter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:36:26 +0000

@Hugo: Of PG_VERSION should get correctly defined if you run the two configure scripts. It could be though that ext/pgsql’s configure needs pg_config to work correctly which is why I also added the compilation of the client-side binaries to my instructions in the entry itself.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:31:44 +0000

@Philip: updated instructions don’t work either.
Just do the
# sudo make -C src/interfaces install
and then
# cd src/include
# sudo cp postgres_ext.h /usr/local/mypostgres/include
# sudo cp pg_config.h /usr/local/mypostgres/include
# sudo cp -R libpq /usr/local/mypostgres/include
And you still need to define PG_VERSION in the config.h file in the php build.
Copying pg_config.h is only necessary for pdo_pgsql, that one works the same as building the pgsql extension, just use ./configure –with-pdo_pgsql=/usr/local/mypostgres

By: Segspod

Segspod — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:30:28 +0000

The updates to the blog fixed it. Thanks ..