PHP extension development with Linux and Eclipse CDT. Building your environment
It is hard to start with PHP extensions development in Unix environment. It is not enough to be familiar with C programming language also you need at least basic knowledge in packaging, GNU build tools and of course PHP internals. If your desktop is beautified by Linux - there is a good news for you: you don't need to setup and build everything by yourself! You just need to know how to use already configured package for your distribution. Don't even ask what to do if your desktop is crippled by Windows - play minesweeper. This post is intended to give you a good place to start. Everything is shown on example of the Opensuse 11.4, but other distributions are suitable as well. First of all we need to obtain PHP source code. Raw PHP source from php.net can be used but you will need to take care of PHP configuring and all external symbols. Delete stripped php binaries first: # zypper rm php5 next # zypper si php5 this command will download source RPM package and take care o