PHP compile error on CentOS Install

By jon On July 15, 2007 · 6 Comments

I installed CentOS 5 on my VMWare a few days ago. I installed gcc via yum, compiled and installed libxml2. I then tried to install PHP 5.2.3 and received this error:

configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.

It took me forever to figure this out, but I had to install the g++ library, then it compiled fine.

yum install gcc-c++

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6 Responses to PHP compile error on CentOS Install

A-non-e-mus says:

August 30, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Thanks. This entry saved me an ass-load of time…had the same problem, and like you said, gcc-c++ fixed it. Owe some props to google, too.
Rick says:

February 16, 2008 at 4:24 pm

thanks
Tixik.com says:

November 8, 2010 at 7:34 am

Thank you very much – not too much suggestions around the internet for this problem.
Ben says:

February 18, 2011 at 4:14 pm

Thanks. Worked a treat
Georgie says:

September 10, 2011 at 10:54 pm

Thanks, i checked that gcc was installed and assumed it was all installed.
jon says:

September 13, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Happy to help!