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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:11:32+00:00

I have a mac with a custom PHP 5 install that built from about

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I have a mac with a custom PHP 5 install that built from about a year ago. I remember it took all Sunday and I had to compile about 20 times to get it right. The MySQL I have is from entropy and was precompiled.

Now I need to get PDO with the MySQL driver working and the driver is not installed. I tried the ‘pecl install pdo_mysql’ and it dies at a point where it can’t find some mysql files. Any ideas how I can fix this quickly?

checking for mysql_config... not found configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under ERROR: `/private/tmp/pear/temp/PDO_MYSQL/configure' failed

I’ll post whatever paths or messages you need to help me troubleshoot this. Will I have to compile PHP all over again, or can I just compile the pdo_mysql extension?

I hope I don’t seem lazy, I just have a lot of code to write and not a lot of time to fight with my PHP configuration.

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  1. You’re going to need to compile it by hand, instead of via PECL. You’ll need to know where your MySQL install is. I don’t know about the Entropy packages, but the builds provided by MySQL (which I recommend) install into /usr/local/mysql.

    $ pecl download pdo_mysql $ tar xzf PDO_MYSQL-1.0.2.tgz $ cd PDO_MYSQL-1.0.2 $ phpize $ ./configure --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql $ make && sudo make install

    And that should get you to the point where you can configure it.

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