I've been scouring every resource I could find, but came up empty. I get the dreaded "Waiting for Connection" message in NetBeans 6.9 when I start a debug session. After much reading, most folks are able to get phpinfo() to display that it loaded the xdebug module. Not so with me.
I downloaded the source through SVN using this call
svn co svn://svn.xdebug.org/svn/xdebug/xdebug/trunk xdebug
I switched to the xdebug directory and then ran phpize on the source
sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/phpize
Password:
grep: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory
grep: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory
grep: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:
Zend Module Api No:
Zend Extension Api No:
A big fat nothing! The referenced directories don't even exist. So, I make the assumption that any .ini tweaking I do beyond this point is useless. If I do a whereis php, I find it in /usr/bin. That's the default php pre-loaded with the OS. I don't want that one. I need to use the php installed with MAMP. I cannot believe how insanely frustrating it is to get this thing working!
For the record, my xdebug section in my php.ini looks like this:
[xdebug]
; xdebug config for Linux and Mac OS X
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_output_name=xdebug.cachegrind-out.%s.%p
xdebug.remote_log="/Applications/MAMP/logs/xdebug_log.log"
It's a mish-mash of many different attempts to get xdebug to work. So, I don't know which pieces are valid or not.
I throw myself on the mercy of the experts because I obviously am not one of them. I have absolutely no idea how to proceed at this point.
Thanks in advance.
To use phpize in the MAMP directory instead of your system path, you should add MAMP's directory for PHP binaries to your $PATH. Below I'm using MAMP 1.9.1, which offers PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3. We'll assume you're compiling for PHP 5.3.
Open or create ~/.bash_profile and put the following contents:
#Add MAMP binaries to path
export PATH="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin:$PATH"
You may also need to chmod the binaries inside /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin to be executable:
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/pear
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/peardev
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/pecl
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phar
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phar.phar
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/php
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/php-config
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phpcov
chmod 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phpize
Restart your Terminal session for the new $PATH to be loaded. Run the command which phpize and it should display /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phpize. If not, the path to phpize in your MAMP directory is not being loaded in your $PATH. Use echo $PATH in Terminal to make sure /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin is in the $PATH.
To get xDebug to compile, you need the header files from when PHP was compiled. These are available on the MAMP website in a DMG, and called "MAMP Components": http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/index.html
Unpack MAMP Components and copy MAMP_src to your Desktop. Unpack MAMP_src/php-5.3.2.tar.gz and move it into the include path present in php-config --includes which should include /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/include/php.
cd ~/Desktop/MAMP_src
tar -xvzf php-5.3.2.tar.gz
mkdir -p /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/include
mv php-5.3.2/ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/include/php
You can now run phpize in the xDebug source dir.