Building a PHP Test Environment on Mac OS X

The following instructions were written for and tested on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Please install all OS software updates before starting to build your test environment.

Building a PHP test environment on Windows is a three step process:

1. Install Xcode
2. Build the Latest Version of PHP 5.2
3. Build the Latest Version of PHP 5.3
4. Build the Latest Version of PHP Trunk

We recommend you run tests you've written against the three main branches of PHP: 5.2, 5.3 and Trunk.

The build tools that Mac OS X needs to configure compile and build PHP are all included in Xcode. Xcode can be installed from the Mac OS X Installation DVD or downloaded here. Please install Xcode now.