[php] How to install and run phpize

I have been meaning to install ffmpeg as an extension to my PHP setup. So before I can install it, I need to phpize it. I installed php5-dev by sudo apt-get install php5-dev. But now when I run phpize I get the following error :

phpize
Cannot find config.m4. 
Make sure that you run '/usr/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module

The location of my php.ini is /usr/local/zend/etc/php.ini

From another online resource I tried this

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool m4

But all of them are already installed.

Locate config.m4 didn't return anything.

Any pointers here how I can get phpize and thus, ffmpeg up and running?

Of course in PHP7.2

sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev

This might help someone on ubuntu. No promises.

sudo apt-get install libcurl3 php5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libmagic-dev
sudo apt-get install php-http make
sudo pecl install pecl_http

And adding "extension=http.so" to php.ini (Normally located at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)

Then restart Apache (sudo service apache2 restart).

If in doubt, check your apache logs:

sudo su --
cd /var/log/apache2
tail -25 error.log

Is http.so starting or failing?

I had this exact problem on macOS in 2018.

For me, first running brew install php before sudo pecl install mongodb did the trick.

For PHP7 Users

7.1

sudo apt install php7.1-dev

7.2

sudo apt install php7.2-dev

7.3

sudo apt install php7.3-dev

7.4

sudo apt install php7.4-dev

If not sure about your PHP version, simply run command php -v

If you're having problems with phpize not found on CentOS7.x after you have installed the relevant devel tools for your version/s of PHP, this path finally worked for me:

For PHP 7.2.x

/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/phpize

For PHP 7.3.x

/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/phpize

For PHP 7.4.x

/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/usr/bin/phpize

Run this in your folder containing the downloaded PHP extension, for example in line 3 below:

Example based on installing the PHP v7.3.x Brotli Extension from https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli

git clone --recursive --depth=1 https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli.git
cd /php-ext-brotli
/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/php-config
make
make test

Hmm... actually i dont know how this solved it? But the following steps solved it for me:

find / -name 'config.m4'

Now look if the config.m4 is anywhere in a folder of that stuff you want to phpize. Go to that folder and run phpize directly in there.

Step - 1: If you are unsure about the php version installed, then first run the following command in terminal

php -v

Output: the above command will output the php version installed on your machine, mine is 7.2

PHP 7.2.3-1ubuntu1 (cli) (built: Mar 14 2018 22:03:58) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.2.3-1ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

Step 2: Then to install phpize run the following command, Since my php version is 7.2.3. i will replace it with 7.2, so the command will be,

sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev

Step 3: Done!

Alternate method(Optional): To automatically install the phpize version based on the php version installed on your machine run the following command.

sudo apt-get install php-dev

This command will automatically detect the appropriate version of php installed and will install the matching phpize for the same.

For instance, if you wanted to use the "phpize" command for PHP 5.6, you would use the full path: Code:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/phpize

For ubuntu with Plesk installed run apt-get install plesk-php56-dev, for other versions just change XX in phpXX (without the dot)

In Ubuntu 16.04, you can install phpize with the command

aptitude install php7.1-dev // for php 7.1

which is equivalent to

apt-get install php7.1-dev // for php 7.1

Under Redhat Enterprise / CentOS, use yum to install the php-devel module:

yum install php-devel

For PHP 7, you need:

yum install php70-php-devel

Ohk.. I got it running by typing /usr/bin/phpize instead of only phpize.

Go to the downloaded folder and there you find config.m4. Open the terminal and run phpsize.

For ubuntu 14.04LTS with php 7, issue:

sudo apt-get install php-dev

Then install:

pecl install memcache

Install from linux terminal

sudo apt-get install <php_version>-dev

Example :

sudo apt-get install php5-dev     #For `php` version 5
sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev   #For `php` version 7.0