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Asked: 2026-05-24T10:36:03+00:00

I’ve been trying to build and link libphp5.so using the –enable-embed configure option, on

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I’ve been trying to build and link libphp5.so using the –enable-embed configure option, on OSX. This doesn’t complete successfully, failing primarily because of object files not being found during the linking stage.

There are reports that the –enable-embed option has been broken on OSX for a long time.

Has anybody had any success doing this, linking and embedding the Zend Engine functions into a C/C++ app?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I finally managed to do this after lots of failed attempts. Here is a configure string that will build the libphp5.a library on OSX for PHP 5.3.6:

    ./configure --enable-embed=static --disable-libxml --disable-dom --disable-simplexml --disable-xml --disable-xmlreader --disable-xmlwriter --without-pear --without-iconv

    Then, when linking to C/C++ code, you need to add libresolv to prevent link errors relating to DNS functions in the Zend Engine. For example:

    g++ -o yourapp src/main.o -Lpath/to/libs -lphp5 -lresolv

    Hope this helps somebody one day 🙂

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