sudo pecl install apc returns error

Question

I run the command: sudo pecl install apc

The file gets downloaded, the configuration succeeds, then make is launched and I get the following error.

/usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory

Is there a way to fix it?

Solution 1

PCRE is a dependency for installing APC. You can install it pretty quick with

yum install pcre-devel or apt-get install libpcre3-dev

once it's installed, re-run

sudo pecl install apc

Solution 2

sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev is the answer.

So to be able to install pecl [install extension]

the following packages are required:

sudo apt-get install php5-pear php5-dev libpcre3-dev

Solution 3

What version of PHP?

For a while, some months ago, I had trouble installing APC, and could only make it work with pecl install apc-beta

If you're not dealing with a production system, you might try that.

Solution 4

You seem to be missing the development version of PHP5. On Ubuntu you can install it using:

sudo aptitude install php5-dev

Solution 5

Have you install a PHP extension via PECL before?

Does the file /usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h actually exist?

You could get this error because of the following

1. Incorrect permissions
2. PECL directory configuration is incorrect.

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Comments

[Louis Nel]

PCRE is required but the docs still say: "No external libraries are needed to build this extension."

[Citricguy]

sudo apt-get install build-essential may help with the external libraries issue.

[Ryre]

I received this error after installing php5-dev, unfortunately (Ubuntu 12.04).