Custom-compiled PHP with xdebug.so on OS X 10.5
Had to screw around a bit today to get xdebug running on my development macbook pro.
I compile my own AMP stack from source, so my setup is a little different than most.
On my laptop, apache and php both live in /apache2, so my php binary is at /apache2/php/bin/php, and php.ini lives in /apache2/php/lib/php.ini
Here’s what I did to make xdebug work:
# cd /apache2/php/bin
# pecl install xdebug
Which gave me a shiny new xdebug.so in /apache2/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
Pecl then lied to me, and said I should add “extension=xdebug.so” to my php.ini
That didn’t work. I got message like:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘./xdebug.so’ – (null) in Unknown on line 0
in apache’s error_log
What did work was adding the following line to php.ini, and restarting apache:
zend_extension=/apache2/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so
Now, this directly contradicts what my default php.ini said about not using directory information in the extension line, but fiddling with extension_dir didn’t seem to work for some reason.
Anyway, this worked for me.
Worth noting. I still get some junk in apache’s error_log that looks like:
“Failed loading xdebug.so: (null)”
but xdebug appears to be functioning properly (I get pretty-printed var_dumps, and the profiler will write cachegrind files just fine)