Comments on: How to build the PHP rrdtool extension by hand

By: patrick oleary

patrick oleary — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:41:54 +0000

Much easier to compile if you use phpize

cd rrdtool-php/
phpize
./configure –enable-rrdtool
make
make install

echo "extension=rrdtool.so" >> /etc/php.ini

restart your web server or continue with command line.

By: RRDTool bindings for php5 in Ubuntu

RRDTool bindings for php5 in Ubuntu — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:38:52 +0000

[...] others are talking about compiling it from source, but this seems very wrong and unnecessary to [...]

By: setiawan

setiawan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:25:37 +0000

@Sébastien Cramatte

The correct package name of deb-helper it should be written as debhelper (i have tried by using Debian Etch), and also i have been followed your post and it works properly..thanks..

By: Sébastien Cramatte

Sébastien Cramatte — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:59:56 +0000

For impatient and perfectionist It possible to build a clean php rrdtool debian package in 5mn …

First you should use http://www.dotdeb.org php5 packages that are always up to date …

With the help of this little magic script
http://svn.dotdeb.org/debianize/

You can build your extension …
This script requires php5-dev, deb-helper, build-essential package and of course the
php-rrdtool source (http://ftp.idilis.ro/mirrors/rrdtool/contrib/php_rrdtool.tgz
)

/usr/src#apt-get install php5-dev deb-helper build-essential librrd2-dev
/usr/src#wget http://ftp.idilis.ro/mirrors/rrdtool/contrib/php_rrdtool.tgz
/usr/src#tar-xvzf php_rrdtool.tgz
/usr/src#./debianize5 rrdtool
…

Creating php5-rrdtool…
PHP version : 5.2.3-0.dotdeb.1
PHP Api : 20041225

Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: 20060613
Zend Extension Api No: 220060519
dh_testdir
…
dpkg-deb: building package `php5-rrdtool' in `../php5-rrdtool_5.2.3-0.dotdeb.1_amd64.deb'.

Nice ;)
Hope that will be useful …

By: DaiBach

DaiBach — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:34:25 +0000

Hey Bitto, I'm after a Windows version of the extension too. Chris of SiteBuddy.com has tried to give it a go

http://www.sitebuddy.com/php/rrdtool_extension_windows_binaries

By: bitto

bitto — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:16:54 +0000

I am running PHP server in windows environment.
Maybe this is a stupid question: 'is there any bin source of PHP RRDtool for Windows platform?'

By: kotto bass

kotto bass — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:28:45 +0000

System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4
Apache: 2.2.3
PHP: 5.2.1 from source
ImageMagick: 6.3.3

Since I didn't want to recompile PHP, and also didn't want to downgrade autoconf to 2.13, here's my route:

- Download and untar MagicWand
- In MagicWand directory, run phpize
Note: Mine is located at /usr/local/apache/php/bin/phpize
- Type autoconf
- Type ./configure with options.
Note: I had to specify location of PHP config file, and directory of ImageMagick install, so I entered: ./configure –with-php-config=/usr/local/apache/php/bin/php-config –with-magickwand=/usr
- Type make
Note: Make creates magickwand.so in the modules subfolder.
- Copy magickwand.so to your php modules directory from the MagickWand modules subdirectory.
Note: My PHP modules directory is located at /usr/lib/php/modules/
- Add 'extension=magickwand.so' to your php.ini file if it's not there already.
- Restart Apache

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:02:46 +0000

For rrdtool versions 1.2.x, use the CFLAG:

CFLAGS=-DHAVE_RRD_12X

It worked for my using rrdtool 1.2.15 and php 5.2.0.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:34:01 +0000

Well I got it working… For some reason with any other version of AUTOCONF (even newer versions) it will not configure correctly. I had to uninstall the autoconf rpm and compile 2.13 from source to get it to work. Once I did that your instructions were perfect! Thanks for these tips.

By: Vern Dias

Vern Dias — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:14:33 +0000

OK, ignore the previous post. After installing autoconf 2.13, I got past this issue …..

Right into another issue. Apparently this code is not compatible with the newer versions of RRDTOOL.

/usr/local/nms/Source/php-5.2.0/ext/rrdtool/rrdtool.c:347: error: too few arguments to function `rrd_graph'
make: *** [ext/rrdtool/rrdtool.lo] Error 1

The statement in question is passing 5 arguments:

if ( rrd_graph(argc-1, &argv[1], &calcpr, &xsize, &ysize) != -1 )

rrd:graph is now looking for 8 arguments.

int rrd_graph(int, char **, char ***, int *, int *, FILE *, double *, double *);

Not really being a coder, I am at a loss as to how to fix this.

Vern