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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:31:10+00:00

I have installed MAMP and the PHP it came with wasn’t compiled with ncurses

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I have installed MAMP and the PHP it came with wasn’t compiled with ncurses. I’ve tried to use port to install ncurses and it seems that it already exists on my system so now I was wondering if there was a way to get PHP to use it without having to recompile PHP –with-ncurses.

In other words: Can PHP be configured to use ncurses without the recompilation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m sorry for the late answer but this can actually be done quite easily with MAMP.

    I have done this on my MacBook running OS X Snow Leopard.

    Your MAMP directory contains the tar file of the php source code. MAMP version 1.8.4 ships with php-5.2.11.tar located here: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/

    1. cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/
    2. tar -xvf php-5.2.11.tar
    3. cd php-5.2.11/ext/ncurses
    4. /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/phpize
    5. ./configure –with-php-config=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php-config
    6. make
    7. make install

    Afterwards you just need to add the ncurses.so extension to the MAMP php.ini

    1. echo “extension=ncurses.so” >> /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini
    2. php -i | grep ncurses

    This gives me:

    ncurses

    ncurses support => enabled

    ncurses library version => 5.7

    You can also do this with the PCNTL extension 😉 😉

    Cheers!

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