Yes, this is pretty simple, but I had to look around for too long to find a solution that didn’t involve homebrew or ports or (even worse) some kind of path manipulation to install PEAR\/PECL to MAMP. (No, I do not want to set my bash_profile to use the MAMP PHP over the default. And no, I don’t want to recompile PHP – at least not today and at least not until I want to upgrade the version installed.) I just wanted to install pecl_http to run some tests, and I figured if I didn’t put my notes somewhere I would lose them. So here they are.<\/p>\n
Before you begin, you need to have Xcode installed – get it from the app store.<\/p>\n
Installing PEAR<\/a> (which includes PECL<\/a>) is pretty straight-forward (thanks to Jason McCreary at pureconcepts.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n Two simple terminal commands, and some configuration: in the configuration prompt – Type 4 and then return and type Hit return and you are done (with the first part).<\/p>\n Verify pear with: Now, before you run off and type
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\ncurl -O http:\/\/pear.php.net\/go-pear.phar sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
\nsudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
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\nType 1 and then Return
\nthen type:
\n\/usr\/local\/pear<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\/usr\/local\/bin<\/code><\/p>\n
\npear version<\/code><\/p>\nsudo pecl install pecl_http<\/code> you should know that it will fail, as autoconf is not yet installed. Thankfully, this is quite simple as well, (thanks to This question on serverfault.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n