MAC OS El Capitan 10.11：安装XDEBUG

Question

I am searching the way to debug php scripts. In internet i found information that i can do that with MacGDBp + XDebug . When i'm trying install using PECL in Shell:

sudo pecl install xdebug

The next error have been occured:

downloading xdebug-2.4.0.tgz ...

Starting to download xdebug-2.4.0.tgz (264,832 bytes)
.....................done: 264,832 bytes

76 source files, building
running: phpize
grep: /usr/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory

grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory

grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory

Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:

Zend Module Api No:

Zend Extension Api No:

Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.

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Help me find the way to solve that problem.

Answer 1

XDebug is available by default. Just enable it by

1) sudo nano /etc/php.ini (or sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini first if the file doesn't yet exist)

2) Add these lines at the end (verify the path with ls ls /usr/lib/php/extensions/ )

[Xdebug]
zend_extension="/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/xdebug.so"

3) Restart apache using sudo apachectl restart

4) Verify by php -m | grep xdebug php -m | grep xdebug

Answer 2

Mike Chamberlain's excellent response almost got xdebug working with NetBeans using Mac OS Sierra 10.12. Only two changes required: In step 2, after zend_extension="/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/xdebug.so" also add xdebug.remote_enable=1

This was necessary because the precompiled .so file has xdebug remote access disabled. NetBeans and other tools need it to be enabled.

Answer 3

For debugging using xdebug i used the following steps

For installing php72 I installed using brew with the following command:

brew install homebrew/php/php72-xdebug

I added the following command to the bottom of the php.ini file:

zend_extension=/usr/local/Cellar/php72-xdebug/2.6.0/xdebug.so

Note: if you need to search for a version of xdebug with brew use:

brew search xdebug