## Compiling PECL extensions statically into PHP

You might find that you need to build a PECL extension statically into your PHP binary. To do this, you'll need to place the extension source under the php-src/ext/ directory and tell the PHP build system to regenerate its configure script.

    $ cd /your/phpsrcdir/ext
    $ pecl download extname
    $ gzip -d < extname.tgz | tar -xvf -
    $ mv extname-x.x.x extname

This will result in the following directory:

        /your/phpsrcdir/ext/extname

From here, force PHP to rebuild the configure script, and then build PHP as normal:

    $ cd /your/phpsrcdir
    $ rm configure
    $ ./buildconf --force
    $ ./configure --help
    $ ./configure --with-extname --enable-someotherext --with-foobar
    $ make
    $ make install

> Note: To run the 'buildconf' script you need autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4+ (newer versions of autoconf may work, but are not supported).

Whether --enable-extname or --with-extname is used depends on the extension. Typically an extension that does not require external libraries uses --enable. To be sure, run the following after buildconf:

    $ ./configure --help | grep extname