How do you install PHP PECL extensions with Macports?

Question

I'm using PHP 5.5 installed through Macports. I'd like to add the APCu PECL library. But there's no macports package and I can't see a way to install the PEAR/PECL command line utility. So how does one add APCu (or really any PECL library) to PHP 5.5 installed via Macports?

Answer 1

I was stumbling over how to get PEAR working on MacPorts as well. It turns out that I installed it somehow (possibly with the core PHP package, php54 with the default variants in my case…?), but MacPorts didn't put the binary in a normal $PATH location, so my shell couldn't find it. It was hanging out in /opt/local/lib/php/pear/bin/pear. A simple ln -s /opt/local/lib/php/pear/bin/pear /opt/local/bin/pear and a rehash (that bit might be a tcsh-ism), and I was in business.

Answer 2

From the mac terminal console, run:

$ port search pear | grep php54
php54-pear @20110901_4 (php, www)
Optional port adds the PEAR repository to the include path for php54.

There is a pear package for 5.4 now. You can then:

$ sudo port install php54-pear

And you should be in good shape.

Answer 3

You can try Homebrew instead, e.g.

brew install php56 --with-pear

Then pecl command should be already there, if not, link it again via:

brew unlink php56 && brew link php56 --dry-run && brew link php56

or manually:

ln -vs "$(find /usr/local/Cellar/php56 -name pecl -print -quit)" /usr/local/bin