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Posted by: BoobtoobOn 2002/12/31 19:17:33 6826 reads

As a recent Mac convert like many others out there coming from the Windows world, we often have trouble finding the right server software that was so easy to find for Windows or Linux. I ran across a site today that many of you may or may not know of called Aaronfaby.com. Prior to finding this site, I had to compile most things by hand for PHP and modules.

The guy from this site has take the time to create pre-compiled binaries for many Windows/Linux equivilent server software including Apache2, PHP 4.30, Perl 5.8, Postgres SQL, MySQL, etc... Have fun and a happy new year!

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Re: More mac help with server software

Tiran_Kenja Published 01/01/2003 13:29 Just popping in Joined 10/16/2002 Comments 21

Another good resource is the Fink project (http://fink.sourceforge.net/). It provides precompiled unix software for Mac OS X.

Re: More mac help with server software

Boobtoob Published 01/01/2003 18:54 Friend of XOOPS Joined 12/22/2001 Comments 202

Yup... another good one. Fink is a great source of opensource code. The site I pointed out uses the Mac installer with good directions.

Re: More mac help with server software

TLM Published 01/02/2003 10:04 Just popping in Joined 04/25/2002 Comments 1

Another source for some easy install packages is the site of Marc Liyanage at http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/

TLM

Re: More mac help with server software

tychay Published 03/10/2003 10:09 Updated 03/11/2003 11:51 Just popping in Joined 02/20/2003 Comments 3

Also worth looking into is PHPMac which provides install instructions of both the Marc Linyage "entropy" and ServerLogistics precompiled versions as well as install instructions for compiling.

Note, fink does not have a PHP package, but it, coupled with fink commander, really ease the process of installing PHP with support for extensions dependant on other libraries. This includes compiling LDAP support in if you are willing to use a CVS snapshot (which has my patches to the makefile).

Another note. PHP 4.1 is installed on the mac "out of box", you just have to turn it on in /etc/httpd.conf. It has, however, almost no options turned on. Mac OS X support has progressed far since PHP 4.1. In Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), it pretty compiles very easily "out of box". All you need to do is install Developer Tools (free) and (I recommend) the Apple X11 Preview ("User" and "Developer") also free. BTW, the "Web Sharing" on Mac OS X is the latest version of Apache 1.3 so there is no need to recompile. In fact, if you have Mac OS X 10.2.4 you'll notice something especially cool if you activate the "Rendezvous" menu or bookmarks in Safari.

Final note (question). I noticed dynamic loading of PHP extensions (dl()) seems to be broken as of PHP 4.3. This was supposedly fixed before PHP 4.2 and it works fine PHP 5. Anyone know what is up? It would make life a lot easier if I could compile extensions as shared libraries and have them load. Not to mention Zend Extensions (compilers, etc) and PHP-GTK. After all, what's the point in having the sexiest computer on earth if I can't hack my favorite web scripting language.

Take care,

terry chay

Re: More mac help with server software (php editors)

tychay Published 03/11/2003 12:06 Updated 03/11/2003 12:11 Just popping in Joined 02/20/2003 Comments 3

I thought I'd split this into a separate comment:

Re: PHP Editors for Mac OS X.

I recommend using a text editor like vim, xemac, jEdit (free) or BBEdit for developing on PHP.

If text editors aren't your thing, you can get a full development environment through eclipse which now supports Mac OS X including using Carbonized Quartz widgets instead of emulated ones, though it isn't fully supported. You have to download a nightly or the stable developmental (recommended) as they didn't have support in eclipse 1.1

You'll need to download plugins to get it working with PHP. There are two to choose from.

The first is phpEclipse project. Besides being open-source, this offers integration with HTMLTidy, SQL support etc.

The other is xored::WebStudio which you might think doesn't work, but that is not true. What you have to do is "upgrade" to Java 1.4.1. This offers integration with APD debugger (not sure if it is possible to get this working with PHP 4.3 due to dynamic loading regression bug), tooltips, and source code validation.

This is a two step process. The first thing you do is use software update to get the Java 1.4.1 J2EE released today (you may also want to subscribe for free to Apple Developer Connection to get the Developer Tools Java 1.4.1 support).

Next, you have to make eclipse "aware" of your Java. Do this by
1. control-click on the eclipse.app application and choose "Show Package Contents"
2. navigate into the Contents folder
3. Open Info.plist in your favorite TEXT editor (do not use textedit) or, better yet, use the bundled /Developer/Applications/Property List Editor (with developer tools)
4. Change the line JVMVersion1.3.1 to JVMVersion1.4+ (or in PListEditor, Change Root/Java/JVMVersion to 1.4+
5. Launch eclipse

You'll get a lot of J2SE 1.4 goodness like scrollwheel support, faster widgets, etc. and xored's plugins will now work (phpEclipse works with both 1.3 and 1.4).

Hope this helps,

terry

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