I need a standalone independent-from-system-libraries version of PHP to be able to distribute it as a .zip file containing binaries. Previously the .zip was containing libxml2.so.2, libpng12.so.0, php.ini and php executable. Recently I needed to add some functionalities and recompile the PHP. I did it with:
./configure \
--prefix=/home/user/php/out \
--libdir=. \
--enable-static=YES \
--enable-shared=NO \
--with-pdo_mysql \
--with-gd \
--with-mysql \
--enable-zip \
--enable-zend-multibyte \
--enable-cgi \
--enable-fastcgi \
--with-ldap=shared
make && make install
Then I took php from out/bin and libmysqlclient.so.16 from /usr/lib/. But the new php doesn't want to pick up the library. Once I run it I get the following error:
./php: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libmysqlclient.so.16 and php are in the same directory. If i put libmysqlclient.so.16 to /usr/lib, php works fine.
Is there any additional option that I've forgotten about during compilation? Why isn't the "--libdir=." option working?
First, the directive is --with-libdir not --libdir. Second, I think it is relative to /usr, so putting . there means you need to put the shared libraries into /usr.
If you have done any C coding with shared libraries, you must know about ld. The easiest way to handle shared libraries path is to use ld.
You can set the library path for the current (shell) session:
bash-4.1$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/your/libs
You can also configure ld to do it all the time:
bash-4.1$ echo /path/to/your/libs >> /etc/ld.so.conf
bash-4.1$ ldconfig