Lately, I have been trying to install the pecl memcache
PHP extension on OSX Catalina with brew memcached
installed and I'm getting the following error every time I try the install process:
configure: error: memcache support requires ZLIB. Use --with-zlib-dir=<DIR> to specify prefix where ZLIB include and library are located
I have tried with pecl install memcache
and with pecl install --configureoptions='with-zlib-dir="path"' memcache
to no avail. It always gets the same point and it fails.
From what I have reviewed on different topics regarding the installation of the package the issue seems to be with the -D
option in the pecl install
command, because when I do a manual install from the source code passing the argument --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/zlib/1.2.11
to the ./configure
command it works like a charm and installs the package but is now not listed in pecl list
installed packages and as so it cannot be uninstalled.
The issue is I need pecl
to manage the installation of the package to be able to uninstall it any time when the environment changes from project to protect.
A quick fix for this (found via https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=56522) is to use the PHP_ZLIB_DIR variable instead of --with-zlib-dir.
i.e. PHP_ZLIB_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/zlib/1.2.11 pecl install memcache
I've struggled with the -D option before as well - near as I can tell it's completely broken.