pecl install memcache fails on OS X Yosemite with "memcache support requires ZLIB"

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MMuzammilQ picture MMuzammilQ · Apr 19, 2015 · Viewed 8k times · Source

I'm trying to perform a pecl install memcache with XAMPP on OS X Yosemite, but it fails to find zlib, producing this error:

checking for the location of ZLIB... no
checking for the location of zlib... configure: error: memcache support requires ZLIB.

Use --with-zlib-dir= to specify prefix where ZLIB include and library are located

ERROR: `/private/tmp/pear/temp/memcache/configure --enable-memcache-session=yes' failed

How to I install zlib so that this pecl install memcache can succeed?

Answer

Henry picture Henry · Jul 21, 2015 
brew install zlib

If you haven't already done so

Next find the zlib headers:

locate zlib.h

You may find you have a few options to choose from.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/ etc

or

/usr/local/Cellar/zlib/1.2.8/include/zlib.h

I use brew wherever I can so I chose the brew version:

brew install php55-memcached --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/zlib/1.2.8/include/zlib.h

I assume passing this flag to pecl will have the same result.

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