PHP Compile Error

[Hektor]

When I try to compile PHP I get this error:

configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

I then do apt-get install libxml2 (which works) and still get the error. Anyone know what I need to install? There is no libxml2-devel package (at least it does not find one).

[Tor]

Try:

# apt-get install libxml2-dev

It should find that, if not you may need to update your repos.

[tecktalk]

Yes this would work surely..

[Jordan]

You need the development packages as Tor suggests. Install that and PHP should work.

[John]

I just had the same problem, and this solution worked for me. However, since I was compiling php with mysql, I also kept getting this error:

configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under yes.
Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore!

To fix that I simply did a

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

and it worked fine

[Hektor]

Thanks guys! That worked fine.