PHP5 With MySQL Pre-compile Configuration Error

Question

I have been attempting to compile PHP5 in order to get GD support for a Drupal website. The configuration runs fine until it gets to the MySQL configuration. It fails when checking "lmysqlclient" however the file appears to be found but it is of the wrong archetecture. I am using the MySQL.com binary for MySQL. The conf.log file for PHP is as follows:
-----START CONF.LOG-----
any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char mysql_close();
int main() {
mysql_close()
; return 0; }
configure:59851: checking for mysql_error in -lmysqlclient
configure:59870: gcc -o conftest -I/usr/include -g -O2 -no-cpp-precomp -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/mysql/lib -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -liconv -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/sw/lib -L/sw/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr -L/usr conftest.c -lmysqlclient -lz -lldap -llber -liconv -liconv -lgd -lssl -lcrypto -lcurl -lz -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm 1>&5
ld warning: in /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.dylib, file is not of required architecture
Undefined symbols:
"mysqlerror", referenced from:
_main in ccaK6P1K.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 59859 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char mysql_error();
int main() {
mysql_error()
; return 0; }
-----END CONF.LOG-----

Answer 1

MasterStarman wrote:
Sorry I haven't replied. Here is the output of the command you told me to run:
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.dylib: Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
OK. Now do that again on all of the libraries that you are linking with in that configure step. One (or more) of them is going to be i386. Download the source for those libraries, install them into /usr/local, and re-do your configure.
EDIT: I have looked through other threads about PHP and GD, it seems like I'm not the only one who wishes Apple would have included a very common library with the Mac. I sincerely hope they include better options in 10.6.
I agree. I will say this for the Linux community - they are much handier at compiling their own code. Mac people tend to look for an easy way out and often get stuck because of it.
I also have boiled it down to probably recompiling MySQL however this of course presents problems with the Leopard server as MySQL is a little more integrated.
That is unlikely to help. You have an entire system - Apache, PHP, MySQL that all need to link together. You can't fix just one. (Actually you can, but people prefer to use the optimized versions with Apache). You must do them all the same way and correctly. You don't have to replace anything that Apple has done. You could install your own pre-build software using MAMP. You could build it all yourself and install in /usr/local. Unfortunately, the answer most people pick is "try to fix the system install". That is possible, but it has to be done correctly and requires that you know how to do such things.