Building the driver from sources

Build the driver on Linux

First of all, we have to meet some requirements. This means we need to install the phpize command. The phpize command is used to prepare the build environment for a PHP extension. Install the phpize command. This is usually done by installing the php7-devel package using the system's package manager. Also install the fbclient library and developer packages.

For OpenSuse 15.1 use

$ zypper in php7-devel libfbclient2 libfbclient-devel

Now make sure you provide the fbclient.so and the header files (ibase.h). These are needed to compile. You can specify the include path for the ibase.h file with CPPFLAGS as you can see in the following listing.

$ git clone https://github.com/MartinKoeditz/php-firebird.git
$ cd php-firebird
$ phpize
$ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/firebird ./configure
$ make

If the configure process passes you will get following message:

$ Build complete.
$ Don't forget to run 'make test'.

You can find the interbase.so file in directory php-firebird/modules. Copy the file to your php extension dir, add it to the php.ini and restart your webserver.

Clean up your working directory

After you've created the binary data, many temporary files will be created in your working directory. These can be removed with the command phpize --clean. Then you have a tidy directory again.