OS X Lion + MAMP 2.0.1 + Memcache and PHP 5.2.17

After a fresh install of Lion, getting up to speed with my normal MAMP dev setup + memcached wasn’t as easy as on Snow Leopard. I ended up seeking inspiration from the following articles:

In hindsight, it was quite easy:

  • Ensure Xcode is installed - XCode 4.1 is free now in the app store - make sure you install it after it downloads
  • Install homebrew as per the instructions here
  • Install memcached by simply brew install memcached
  • pear in this version of MAMP is broken, to fix it, simply remove pear’s config file mv /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/conf/pear.conf /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/conf/pear.conf.old
  • As per the section ”Install Memcache PHP Extension - Option 2”
    • Download the correct version of the php source code for your installed php
    • Create the path /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/include/ and extract the contents of the source code download here.
    • Rename the folder that was created as just ‘php’ so you’ll end up with /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/include/php
    • cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/include/php ./configure cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/bin ./pecl i memcache This should dump memcached.so in the extension folder. If it’s made something other than /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613, move it into there (it’d only be different in the last part of the path)
  • Add this to the extensions part of your php.ini extension=memcache.so
  • Restart apache

And hey presto, it’s done.

You could also cheat and just put my pre-compiled version of memcache.so in your extension folder and go to town.

Update: I’ve also compiled the php 5.3.6 version of the .so file. Download it, rename it back to memcache.so, put it in your extension folder and enjoy.

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