configure: error: Could not link against boost_regex !

[pbiggar]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.I cannot install phc-0.3.0.1 on ubuntu 12.04  LTS (32 Bit)
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
checking for boostlib >= 1.35.0... yes
checking whether the Boost::Regex library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_regex-mt... no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex-mt... (cached) no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... (cached) no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... (cached) no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... (cached) no
configure: error: Could not link against boost_regex !

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
php-5.5.7/
phc-0.3.0.1

Please provide any additional information below.
Please look at the attachment.

Please help i cannot solve the problem since many days.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by methodxjp@yahoo.fr on 2013-12-16 23:09:19

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• Attachment: config.log

[pbiggar]

Please, can someone help me?
Thank you

Original issue reported on code.google.com by methodxjp@yahoo.fr on 2013-12-17 10:05:18

[pbiggar]

Hi,

I am seeing this issue also with php 5.5.8, centos 6.5 and phc-0.3.0.1.

All deps are installed.

If anyone has any advice here that would be much appreciated. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rick@rick-walker.co.uk on 2014-02-12 12:18:56

[pbiggar]

Rolling back to the 32bit version solved this for me.

yum install boost-regex.i686

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rick@rick-walker.co.uk on 2014-02-12 12:24:07

[pbiggar]

I just encountered this same problem, and your tip in installing 32bit boost-regext
helped!  Thank you!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nyamul on 2014-08-12 08:16:34

[miches]

I cannot get this to compile either. I use Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants, and on both systems, I get the exact same error as above after I compiled php with SAPI support to /opt. I tried both the last tarball I could find (0.3.0.1) and the current github repository, with the same result.

If I just type "./configure", the script fails with

checking for boostlib >= 1.35.0... yes
checking whether the Boost::Regex library is available... yes
configure: error: Could not find a version of the Boost::Regex library!

which is not very helpful as he claims to both have found and missed out on the boost-regex libary (which of course is installed)

If I type "./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/" (which is the path to the boost libs) instead, I get:

configure: WARNING:
*******************************************************************************
* It seems the PHP embed SAPI has not been installed.                         *
*                                                                             *
* You will be able to compile and run phc, but you will not be able to        *
* compile PHP scripts with phc.                                               *
*                                                                             *
* To install the PHP embed SAPI, follow the PHP installation instructions,    *
* but make sure to pass the --enable-embed option to the PHP configure        *
* script.                                                                     *
*******************************************************************************

which seems reasonable as the script is detecting the ubuntu-installed, non-SAPI version of php in the default path. So, I try "./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ --with-php=/opt" (php is installed under /opt, the SAPI-enabled php binary is located at /opt/bin/php). This provides me with the above error:

checking for boostlib >= 1.35.0... yes
checking whether the Boost::Regex library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... (cached) no
checking for exit in -lboost_regex... (cached) no
configure: error: Could not link against boost_regex !

and nothing left to try.

What am I doing wrong? Doesn't this work anymore? I need a way to build executables from PHP scripts, and hiphop doesn't seem to do that anymore, either. :-(

[miches]

Not a single reply in more than two weeks - this project is dead, right? :-(

[pbiggar]

Yeah, unfortunately :(

[neo4u]

Could you please let me know as to what is the latest version of PHP that works well with the latest version of PHC?

[pbiggar]

PHP 5.2 definitely worked, though I think I recall PHP 5.3 working as well, and maybe PHP 5.4.

[dukebarman]

I've a same problem. Maybe create a docker image for phc?

[pbiggar]

Fixed on master.