Question

I’m trying to cross compile php for arm and have good progress but I’m totally stuck where it wants to run the php itself (have no idea why). as it is an arm binary and not intel (my building platform) it won’t run:

/bin/sh: /path-to-build/sapi/cli/php: cannot execute binary file

How can I fix this? The configure script understood I’m cross compiling but didn’t do anything about it (from configure log):

checking whether the C compiler (/path-to-compiler/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc) is a cross-compiler... yes

I’m compiling php-5.3.6 with configure command line:

export CC=/path-to-cc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc
../configure --prefix=/prefix-path/ --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi
             --disable-libxml --disable-dom --disable-openssl
             --without-iconv --without-openssl --disable-simplexml
             --disable-xml --disable-xmlreader --disable-xmlwriter
             --without-pear --without-sqlite --without-sqlite3
             --disable-pdo --without-pdo-sqlite

Answer 1

I was able to resolve this my own by disabling phar. I hope disabling so much modules won’t break something internal.