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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 Mac OS X is a five step process:
- Install Xcode
- Download the Automated Build Scripts
- Run the Build Script
We recommend you run tests you've written against the three main branches of PHP: 5.2, 5.3 and Trunk.
The rest of the instructions assume you will be building your test environment on your ~/Desktop. If you choose to build in another location, please change the corresponding paths in all commands found throughout the rest of the instructions.
Install Xcode
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.
Download the Automated Build Scripts
Open up a Terminal window and run the following commands in order:
cd ~/Desktop
curl -O http://www.ericstewart.org/public/phpt/PHP-Test-Build-Scripts.tgz
tar -xzf PHP-Test-Build-Scripts.tgz
You've now downloaded and uncompressed the build scripts onto your desktop.
Run the Build Script
Copy the build script to your Desktop using this command:
cp PHP-Test-Build-Scripts/MacOSX-10.6.sh ./
Make the build script executable with this command:
chmod +x ./MacOSX-10.6.sh
Now, you simply run the shell script using this command:
./MacOSX-10.6.sh
You have now built a test environment for PHP on your desktop. The build environment will include a folder for each of the main PHP branches: “php52”, “php53”, and “php-trunk”.