Comments on: PHP 5.3, iconv, OSX, Symbols Missing _libiconv

By: Jasper Tandy

Jasper Tandy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:27:22 +0000

No problem at all – glad you found it useful

By: Jay Garcia

Jay Garcia — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:24:18 +0000

This worked for me like a charm. Thank you very much for taking the time to post this writeup.

By: Jasper Tandy

Jasper Tandy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:18:46 +0000

I agree – it is annoying that there hasn’t been a fix yet, but I’m assuming that it’s OSX-only and therefore not high priority enough to give attention to!

By: Brandon Prudent

Brandon Prudent — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:26:09 +0000

Indeed, this did work, and continues to work for broken PHP OS X releases. My question is, why does it work? What is going on exactly? More importantly, why isn’t this fixed as part of the release? This post is several months old.

(yeah, I realize we can’t answer the why php questions, but I’m still angry about it)

By: Jasper Tandy

Jasper Tandy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:37:29 +0000

No problem! Seems to be a bit hit-and-miss, but it worked for me!

By: Koodough

Koodough — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:24:38 +0000

It works!!! thanks!
Snow Leopard 10.6.2
PHP 5.3.1
12/16/09

By: Apache, PHP, Snow Leopard and Oracle conspired to kill me, but I didn’t let them! – Tom Sartain | Blog

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:23:33 +0000

[...] continued to throw defined symbol errors. Tried manually compiling iconv in 64-bit but that didn’t work, eventually just went with a Macports install and that worked. Also, [...]

By: PHP 5.3, iconv, OSX, Symbols Missing _libiconv // jspr

PHP 5.3, iconv, OSX, Symbols Missing _libiconv // jspr — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:04:02 +0000

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By: Apache, PHP, Zend Debugger and Snow Leopard are conspiring to kill me – Tom Sartain | Blog

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:59:23 +0000

[...] still throws undefined symbol errors. This is no longer fixable by adding -liconv to the EXTRA_LIBS in the [...]

By: OCDeveloper

OCDeveloper — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:48:59 +0000

I had already wasted about 6 hours over two days fudging around and rolling back crap hacks for this php upgrade. But your instructions totally worked for me. My Google-Fu is good, but slow.

My setup:
- OS X 10.5.8
- Intel
- mySQL 5.0.51b installed in usr/local

(preparation)
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp” CCFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe” CXXFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe” LDFLAGS=”-arch x86_64 -bind_at_load” export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS CCFLAGS MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

(mhash)
./configure && make && sudo make install

(libmcrypt)
./configure && make && sudo make install

(mcrypt)
touch malloc.h
./configure && make && sudo make install

(libiconv)
./configure && make && sudo make install

(php configure)
env LIBS=”-liconv” ./configure –prefix=/usr –mandir=/usr/share/man –infodir=/usr/share/info –disable-dependency-tracking –with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs –with-ldap=/usr –with-kerberos=/usr –enable-cli –with-zlib-dir=/usr –enable-trans-sid –with-xml –enable-exif –enable-ftp –enable-mbstring –enable-mbregex –enable-dbx –enable-sockets –with-iodbc=/usr –with-curl=/usr –with-config-file-path=/etc –sysconfdir=/private/etc –with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql –with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config –with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql –with-openssl –with-xmlrpc –with-xsl=/usr –without-pear –with-mcrypt=/usr/local/bin/mcrypt –with-iconv=/usr/local/bin/iconv

(php makefile edit)
from:
$(CC) $(MH_BUNDLE_FLAGS) $(CFLAGS_CLEAN) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(PHP_GLOBAL_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_SAPI_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_FRAMEWORKS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(ZEND_EXTRA_LIBS) -o $@ && cp $@ libs/libphp$(PHP_MAJOR_VERSION).so
to:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS_CLEAN) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(PHP_GLOBAL_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_SAPI_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_FRAMEWORKS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(ZEND_EXTRA_LIBS) $(MH_BUNDLE_FLAGS) -o $@ && cp $@ libs/libphp$(PHP_MAJOR_VERSION).so

(php make)
make
sudo make install

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