Complete list of configure options

Note: These are only used at compile time. If you want to alter PHP's runtime configuration, please see the chapter on Configuration.

The following is a complete list of options supported by PHP 4 configure scripts (as of 4.1.0), used when compiling in Unix-like environments. Some are available in PHP 3, some in PHP 4, and some in both. This is not noted yet.

Configure Options in PHP 4

Database options

--with-db

Include old xDBM support (deprecated).

--enable-dba=shared

Build DBA as a shared module.

--with-gdbm[=DIR]

Include GDBM support.

--with-ndbm[=DIR]

Include NDBM support.

--with-db2[=DIR]

Include Berkeley DB2 support.

--with-db3[=DIR]

Include Berkeley DB3 support.

--with-dbm[=DIR]

Include DBM support.

--with-cdb[=DIR]

Include CDB support.

--enable-dbase

Enable the bundled dbase library.

--with-dbplus

Include dbplus support.

--enable-dbx

Enable dbx.

--with-fbsql[=DIR]

Include FrontBase support. DIR is the FrontBase base directory.

--enable-filepro

Enable the bundled read-only filePro support.

--with-fribidi[=DIR]

Include fribidi support (requires FriBidi >=0.1.12). DIR is the fribidi installation directory - default /usr/local/.

--with-informix[=DIR]

Include Informix support. DIR is the Informix base install directory, defaults to nothing.

--with-ingres[=DIR]

Include Ingres II support. DIR is the Ingres base directory (default /II/ingres).

--with-interbase[=DIR]

Include InterBase support. DIR is the InterBase base install directory, defaults to /usr/interbase.

--with-msql[=DIR]

Include mSQL support. DIR is the mSQL base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/Hughes.

--with-mysql[=DIR]

Include MySQL support. DIR is the MySQL base directory. If unspecified, the bundled MySQL library will be used.

--with-oci8[=DIR]

Include Oracle-oci8 support. Default DIR is ORACLE_HOME.

--with-adabas[=DIR]

Include Adabas D support. DIR is the Adabas base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

--with-sapdb[=DIR]

Include SAP DB support. DIR is SAP DB base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

--with-solid[=DIR]

Include Solid support. DIR is the Solid base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/solid.

--with-ibm-db2[=DIR]

Include IBM DB2 support. DIR is the DB2 base install directory, defaults to /home/db2inst1/sqllib.

--with-empress[=DIR]

Include Empress support. DIR is the Empress base install directory, defaults to $EMPRESSPATH. From PHP4, this option only supports Empress Version 8.60 and above.

--with-empress-bcs[=DIR]

Include Empress Local Access support. DIR is the Empress base install directory, defaults to $EMPRESSPATH. From PHP4, this option only supports Empress Version 8.60 and above.

--with-velocis[=DIR]

Include Velocis support. DIR is the Velocis base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/velocis.

--with-custom-odbc[=DIR]

Include a user defined ODBC support. The DIR is ODBC install base directory, which defaults to /usr/local. Make sure to define CUSTOM_ODBC_LIBS and have some odbc.h in your include dirs. E.g., you should define following for Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.5.00 on QNX, prior to run configure script: CPPFLAGS="-DODBC_QNX -DSQLANY_BUG" LDFLAGS=-lunix CUSTOM_ODBC_LIBS="-ldblib -lodbc".

--with-iodbc[=DIR]

Include iODBC support. DIR is the iODBC base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

--with-esoob[=DIR]

Include Easysoft OOB support. DIR is the OOB base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/easysoft/oob/client.

--with-unixODBC[=DIR]

Include unixODBC support. DIR is the unixODBC base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

--with-openlink[=DIR]

Include OpenLink ODBC support. DIR is the OpenLink base install directory, defaults to /usr/local. This is the same as iODBC.

--with-dbmaker[=DIR]

Include DBMaker support. DIR is the DBMaker base install directory, defaults to where the latest version of DBMaker is installed (such as /home/dbmaker/3.6).

--with-oracle[=DIR]

Include Oracle-oci7 support. Default DIR is ORACLE_HOME.

--with-ovrimos[=DIR]

Include Ovrimos SQL Server support. DIR is the Ovrimos' libsqlcli install directory.

--with-pgsql[=DIR]

Include PostgreSQL support. DIR is the PostgreSQL base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/pgsql. Set DIR to shared to build as a dl, or shared,DIR to build as a dl and still specify DIR.

--with-sybase[=DIR]

Include Sybase-DB support. DIR is the Sybase home directory, defaults to /home/sybase.

--with-sybase-ct[=DIR]

Include Sybase-CT support. DIR is the Sybase home directory. Defaults to /home/sybase.

--disable-unified-odbc

Disable unified ODBC support. Only applicable if iODBC, Adabas, Solid, Velocis or a custom ODBC interface is enabled. PHP 3 only!

Misc options

--enable-force-cgi-redirect

Enable the security check for internal server redirects. You should use this if you are running the CGI version with Apache.

--enable-discard-path

If this is enabled, the PHP CGI binary can safely be placed outside of the web tree and people will not be able to circumvent .htaccess security.

--with-fastcgi=SRCDIR

Build PHP as FastCGI application.

--enable-debug

Compile with debugging symbols.

--with-layout=TYPE

Sets how installed files will be laid out. Type is one of PHP (default) or GNU.

--with-pear=DIR

Install PEAR in DIR (default PREFIX/lib/php).

--without-pear

Do not install PEAR.

--with-openssl[=DIR]

Include OpenSSL support (requires OpenSSL >= 0.9.5).

--enable-sigchild

Enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler.

--disable-rpath

Disable passing additional runtime library search paths.

--enable-libgcc

Enable explicitly linking against libgcc.

--enable-dmalloc

Enable dmalloc.

--enable-php-streams

Include experimental php streams. Do not use unless you are testing the code!

--with-zlib-dir=<DIR>

Define the location of zlib install directory.

--with-zlib[=DIR]

Include zlib support (requires zlib >= 1.0.9). DIR is the zlib install directory.

--with-aspell[=DIR]

Include ASPELL support.

--enable-bcmath

Enable bc style precision math functions.

--with-bz2[=DIR]

Include BZip2 support.

--enable-calendar

Enable support for calendar conversion.

--with-ccvs[=DIR]

Include CCVS support.

--with-crack[=DIR]

Include crack support.

--enable-ctype

Enable ctype support.

--with-curl[=DIR]

Include CURL support.

--with-cybercash[=DIR]

Include CyberCash support. DIR is the CyberCash MCK install directory.

--with-cybermut[=DIR]

Include CyberMut (french Credit Mutuel telepaiement).

--with-cyrus

Include cyrus imap support.

--enable-exif

Enable exif support.

--with-fdftk[=DIR]

Include fdftk support.

--enable-ftp

Enable FTP support.

--with-gettext[=DIR]

Include GNU gettext support. DIR is the gettext install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

--with-gmp

Include gmp support.

--with-hyperwave

Include Hyperwave support.

--with-icap[=DIR]

Include ICAP support.

--with-iconv[=DIR]

Include iconv support.

--with-imap[=DIR]

Include IMAP support. DIR is the c-client install prefix.

--with-kerberos[=DIR]

IMAP: Include Kerberos support. DIR is the Kerberos install dir.

--with-imap-ssl[=DIR]

IMAP: Include SSL support. DIR is the OpenSSL install dir.

--with-ircg-config

Path to the ircg-config script.

--with-ircg

Include ircg support.

--with-java[=DIR]

Include Java support. DIR is the base install directory for the JDK. This extension can only be built as a shared dl.

--with-ldap[=DIR]

Include LDAP support. DIR is the LDAP base install directory.

--enable-mailparse

Enable mailparse support.

--enable-mbstring

Enable multibyte string support.

--enable-mbstr-enc-trans

Enable japanese encoding translation.

--with-mcal[=DIR]

Include MCAL support.

--with-mcrypt[=DIR]

Include mcrypt support. DIR is the mcrypt install directory.

--with-mhash[=DIR]

Include mhash support. DIR is the mhash install directory.

--with-mnogosearch[=DIR]

Include mnoGoSearch support. DIR is the mnoGoSearch base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/mnogosearch.

--with-muscat[=DIR]

Include muscat support.

--with-ncurses

Include ncurses support.

--enable-pcntl

Enable experimental pcntl support (CGI ONLY!)

--without-pcre-regex

Do not include Perl Compatible Regular Expressions support. Use --with-pcre-regex=DIR to specify DIR where PCRE's include and library files are located, if not using bundled library.

--with-pfpro[=DIR]

Include Verisign Payflow Pro support.

--disable-posix

Disable POSIX-like functions.

--with-pspell[=DIR]

Include PSPELL support.

--with-qtdom

Include QtDOM support (requires Qt >= 2.2.0).

--with-libedit[=DIR]

Include libedit readline replacement.

--with-readline[=DIR]

Include readline support. DIR is the readline install directory.

--with-recode[=DIR]

Include recode support. DIR is the recode install directory.

--with-satellite[=DIR]

Enable CORBA support via Satellite (EXPERIMENTIAL) DIR is the base directory for ORBit.

--with-mm[=DIR]

Include mm support for session storage.

--enable-trans-sid

Enable transparent session id propagation.

--disable-session

Disable session support.

--enable-shmop

Enable shmop support.

--with-snmp[=DIR]

Include SNMP support. DIR is the SNMP base install directory, defaults to searching through a number of common locations for the snmp install. Set DIR to shared to build as a dl, or shared,DIR to build as a dl and still specify DIR.

--enable-ucd-snmp-hack

Enable UCD SNMP hack.

--enable-sockets

Enable sockets support.

--with-regex=TYPE

regex library type: system, apache, php.

--with-system-regex

Use system regex library (deprecated).

--enable-sysvsem

Enable System V semaphore support.

--enable-sysvshm

Enable the System V shared memory support.

--with-vpopmail[=DIR]

Include vpopmail support.

--with-tsrm-pthreads

Use POSIX threads (default).

--enable-shared[=PKGS]

Build shared libraries [default=yes].

--enable-static[=PKGS]

Build static libraries [default=yes].

--enable-fast-install[=PKGS]

Optimize for fast installation [default=yes].

--with-gnu-ld

Assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no].

--disable-libtool-lock

Avoid locking (might break parallel builds).

--with-pic

Try to use only PIC/non-PIC objects [default=use both].

--with-yaz[=DIR]

Include YAZ support (ANSI/NISO Z39.50). DIR is the YAZ bin install directory.

--enable-memory-limit

Compile with memory limit support.

--disable-url-fopen-wrapper

Disable the URL-aware fopen wrapper that allows accessing files via http or ftp.

--enable-versioning

Export only required symbols. See INSTALL for more information.

--disable-bcmath

Compile without bc style precision math functions. PHP 3 only!

--with-imsp[=DIR]

Include IMSp support (DIR is IMSP's include dir and libimsp.a dir). PHP 3 only!

--with-ftp

Include FTP support. PHP 3 only!

--with-mck[=DIR]

Include Cybercash MCK support. DIR is the cybercash mck build directory, defaults to /usr/src/mck-3.2.0.3-linux for help look in extra/cyberlib. PHP 3 only!

--disable-overload

Disable user-space object overloading support. PHP 3 only!

--enable-yp

Include YP support. PHP 3 only!

--with-zip

Include ZIP support (requires zziplib >= 0.10.6). PHP 3 only!

--with-mod-dav=DIR

Include DAV support through Apache's mod_dav, DIR is mod_dav's installation directory (Apache module version only!) PHP 3 only!

--enable-debugger

Compile with remote debugging functions. PHP 3 only!

--enable-versioning

Take advantage of versioning and scoping provided by Solaris 2.x and Linux. PHP 3 only!