Misc options

--enable-debug

Compile with debugging symbols.

--with-layout=TYPE

Sets how installed files will be laid out. Type is one of PHP (default) or GNU.

--with-pear=DIR

Install PEAR in DIR (default PREFIX/lib/php).

--without-pear

Do not install PEAR.

--enable-sigchild

Enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler.

--disable-rpath

Disable passing additional runtime library search paths.

--enable-libgcc

Enable explicitly linking against libgcc.

--enable-php-streams

Include experimental PHP streams. Do not use unless you are testing the code!

--with-zlib-dir[=DIR]

Define the location of zlib install directory.

--with-tsrm-pthreads

Use POSIX threads (default).

--enable-shared[=PKGS]

Build shared libraries [default=yes].

--enable-static[=PKGS]

Build static libraries [default=yes].

--enable-fast-install[=PKGS]

Optimize for fast installation [default=yes].

--with-gnu-ld

Assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no].

--disable-libtool-lock

Avoid locking (might break parallel builds).

--with-pic

Try to use only PIC/non-PIC objects [default=use both].

--enable-versioning

Export only required symbols. See INSTALL for more information.

PHP options

--enable-maintainer-mode

Enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer.

--with-config-file-path=PATH

Sets the path in which to look for php.ini, defaults to PREFIX/lib.

--disable-short-tags

Disable the short-form <? start tag by default.

--with-libdir

Specifies the directory where the libraries to build PHP exist on a Unix system. For 64bit systems, its needed to specify this argument to the lib64 directory like: --with-libdir=lib64.

--enable-zts

Enables thread safety. Prior to PHP 8.0.0 on non-Windows systems, the option was called --enable-maintainer-zts.

SAPI options

The following list contains the available SAPI&s (Server Application Programming Interface) for PHP.

--with-apxs[=FILE]

Build shared Apache module. FILE is the optional pathname to the Apache apxs tool; defaults to apxs. Make sure you specify the version of apxs that is actually installed on your system and NOT the one that is in the apache source tarball.

--with-apache[=DIR]

Build a static Apache module. DIR is the top-level Apache build directory, defaults to /usr/local/apache.

--with-mod_charset

Enable transfer tables for mod_charset (Russian Apache).

--with-apxs2[=FILE]

Build shared Apache 2.0 module. FILE is the optional pathname to the Apache apxs tool; defaults to apxs.

--disable-cli

Disable building the CLI version of PHP (this forces --without-pear). More information is available in the section about Using PHP from the command line.

--enable-phpdbg

Enable phpdbg interactive debugger SAPI module support.

--enable-embed[=TYPE]

Enable building of the embedded SAPI library. TYPE is either shared or static, which defaults to shared.

--with-servlet[=DIR]

Include servlet support. DIR is the base install directory for the JSDK. This SAPI requires the java extension must be built as a shared dl.

--disable-cgi

Disable building CGI version of PHP.

This argument also enables FastCGI.