To install PECL on your mac, use curl as shown below to download the go-pear.phar file or just download the go-pear.phar file via your browser.
$ curl -O https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
You’re now ready to configure PEAR for installation.
First you need to change the Installation Base.
- So type 1, and then press Enter.
- Enter /usr/local/pear
- Press Enter.
Then, you will need to change the Binaries directory.
- Type 4, and then press Enter.
- Enter /usr/local/bin
- Press Enter.
Once you have changed the Installation Base and the Binaries Directory, press Enter to install PEAR.
Install Pear Globally
For a system-wide installation, you will need to execute the go-pear script with increased permissions. This is only recommended for advanced users.
$ curl -O https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
Error after error after error to fail to install a package manager for a library for an extension that is supposed to be standard. Why is Unix such a freaking mess? IT HAS BEEN THIRTY YEARS SINCE MAC USERS COULD INSTALL SOFTWARE THAT “JUST WORKED” – WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?????
jwb@MacBookAi7r ~ % pecl install libsodium
WARNING: channel “pecl.php.net” has updated its protocols, use “pecl channel-update pecl.php.net” to update
downloading libsodium-2.0.23.tgz …
Starting to download libsodium-2.0.23.tgz (28,505 bytes)
………done: 28,505 bytes
4 source files, building
running: phpize
grep: /usr/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:
Zend Module Api No:
Zend Extension Api No:
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.
ERROR: `phpize’ failed
jwb@MacBookAi7r ~ % pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
Updating channel “pecl.php.net”
Update of Channel “pecl.php.net” succeeded
jwb@MacBookAi7r ~ % pecl install libsodium
downloading libsodium-2.0.23.tgz …
Starting to download libsodium-2.0.23.tgz (28,505 bytes)
………done: 28,505 bytes
4 source files, building
running: phpize
grep: /usr/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:
Zend Module Api No:
Zend Extension Api No:
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.
ERROR: `phpize’ failed
jwb@MacBookAi7r ~ % brew install autoconf
Running `brew update –preinstall`…
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).
==> Updated Formulae
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==> Installing dependencies for autoconf: m4
==> Installing autoconf dependency: m4
==> Pouring m4–1.4.19.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
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==> Pouring autoconf–2.71.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.71: 71 files, 3.2MB
==> Running `brew cleanup autoconf`…
Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP.
Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
jwb@MacBookAi7r ~ % pecl install libsodium
downloading libsodium-2.0.23.tgz …
Starting to download libsodium-2.0.23.tgz (28,505 bytes)
………done: 28,505 bytes
4 source files, building
running: phpize
grep: /usr/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:
Zend Module Api No:
Zend Extension Api No:
configure.ac:7: warning: $as_echo is obsolete; use AS_ECHO([“message”]) instead
aclocal.m4:2696: PHP_CONFIG_NICE is expanded from…
configure.ac:7: the top level
configure.ac:149: warning: The macro `AC_LANG_C’ is obsolete.
configure.ac:149: You should run autoupdate.
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configure.ac:149: You should run autoupdate.
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configure.ac:149: the top level
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configure.ac:149: the top level
building in /private/tmp/pear/install/pear-build-jwbeuKt6d/libsodium-2.0.23
running: /private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium/configure –with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep… /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /usr/bin/sed
checking for cc… cc
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking for suffix of executables…
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C… yes
checking whether cc accepts -g… yes
checking for cc option to enable C11 features… none needed
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checking for system library directory… lib
checking if compiler supports -R… no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,… yes
checking build system type… x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0
checking host system type… x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0
checking target system type… x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0
checking for PHP prefix… /usr
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configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
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creating libtool
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
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/bin/sh /private/tmp/pear/install/pear-build-jwbeuKt6d/libsodium-2.0.23/libtool –mode=compile cc -I. -I/private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/private/tmp/pear/install/pear-build-jwbeuKt6d/libsodium-2.0.23/include -I/private/tmp/pear/install/pear-build-jwbeuKt6d/libsodium-2.0.23/main -I/private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c /private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium/libsodium.c -o libsodium.lo
mkdir .libs
cc -I. -I/private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/private/tmp/pear/install/pear-build-jwbeuKt6d/libsodium-2.0.23/include -I/private/tmp/pear/install/pear-build-jwbeuKt6d/libsodium-2.0.23/main -I/private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c /private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium/libsodium.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/libsodium.o
/private/tmp/pear/install/libsodium/libsodium.c:6:10: fatal error: ‘php.h’ file not found
#include “php.h”
^~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [libsodium.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make’ failed
jwb@MacBookAi7r ~ %
You seem to be missing php, try `brew install php` first.