php/php-src

Installing PHP built from source

After a successful build (and test), PHP may be installed with:

Depending on your permissions and prefix, make install may need superuser permissions.

make install

Prebuilt packages and binaries

Prebuilt packages and binaries can be used to get up and running fast with PHP.

For Windows, the PHP binaries can be obtained from windows.php.net. After extracting the archive the .exe files are ready to use.

Building PHP source code

For a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3.

Configure your build. --enable-debug is recommended for development, see ./configure --help for a full list of options.

Build PHP. To speed up the build, specify the maximum number of jobs using the -j argument:

The number of jobs should usually match the number of available cores, which can be determined using nproc.

Testing PHP source code

PHP ships with an extensive test suite, the command make test is used after successful compilation of the sources to run this test suite.

Tests run in parallel by default, using up to 10 detected logical processors. Set -jN in TESTPHPARGS or TESTS to override the worker count:

This runs make test with a maximum of 4 concurrent jobs. Alternatively, use -j1 to run tests sequentially.

Use the TESTPHPARGS or TESTS variable to test only specific directories: