Xdebug failed install on Mac m1

Question

I'm trying to install Xdebug on my Mac m1, I followed this page( https://xdebug.org/docs/install ) to install. This is the step I followed:

step1 => go to cmd: arch -x86_64 sudo pecl install xdebug

step2 => go to php.ini delete this line of code

zend_extension="xdebug.so"

step3 => go to php.ini add this

[xdebug]
zend_extension=/opt/homebrew/lib/php/pecl/20190902/xdebug.so
xdebug.mode=debug
xdebug.client_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.client_port="9003"

step4 => go to cmd: php -v

The error shows:

How can I solve this problem? Thanks

Answer 1

What happened here is that you built a x86_64 build of the extension, but homebrew likely used the arm64e architecture. These architectures are not compatible.

You can verify what your PHP's architecture is with:

file `which php`

If that says arm64e , then you need the original command from the documentation:

sudo pecl install xdebug

And if it's x86_64 , then you need the command modified for Apple's dual architecture:

arch -x86_64 sudo pecl install xdebug

For what it's worth, the docs say: On Apple M1 hardware, you might instead need to use..., not must .

Answer 2

If you encounter this:

• file which php result shows Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64 .
• sudo pecl install xdebug still resulted in the wrong architecture problem.

Try this:

arch -arm64e sudo pecl install xdebug

Note: arch -arm64 shown bad cpu type error in my case.

Answer 3

Solution now on M1

if pecl install xdebug doesn't work. run it with sudo command. don't try the arch x84 command as it wont work anymore, since php is now build in arm cpu architecture.

Solution:

sudo pecl install xdebug