If using pear is not an option, like for building shared PECL extensions
from CVS, or for unreleased PECL packages, then creating
a shared extension may also be done by manually using the
phpize command. The pear command essentially does this
but it may also be done manually. Assuming the source file is named
extname.tgz, and that it was downloaded into the
current directory, consider the following:
$ pear download extname
$ gzip -d < extname.tgz | tar -xvf -
$ cd extname
$ phpize
$ ./configure && make |
Upon success, this will create extname.so and put it
into the modules/ and/or .libs/
directory within the extname/ source. Move this
shared extension (extname.so) into the PHP
extensions directory, and adjust
php.ini accordingly.
