can't conpile microcode.so

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi, I have follow the steps in the README under the decoder directory to try to compile microcode as a module of php, but was unsuccessful.

In fact, everything works fine but I didn't see any microcode.so in the modules directory.

May I know what am I missing?

Thanks and would greatly appreciate it if someone can help me out asap. I am almost a step to get the microcode program working.

Regards,
Tina

[Francisco Sam Castillo]

you are trying to compile from the root of the microcode directory, its normal to get confused.

what you  need to symlink or copy into the ../ext/microcode is the decode dir located under the microcode dir that way will work I also added the --disable-debug option to the ./configure command...

Hope that helps

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi. I pulled my hair out over this one. Here's how I managed it
1a. Make sure the ext/microcode directory does not already exist!
1b. Link the the decoder directory to the "/ext/microcode" directory.
You don't need to copy the microcode directory structure
try this
cd <srcpath>/microcode/decoder
HERE=`pwd` ;ln -s $HERE/* <srcpath>/php-4.3.0/ext/microcode

2. grep the files in the php source directory for microcode
try
grep microcode *
if you see a line starting "generated_lists:" then you should be okay
3. follow the instructions in the decoder/README file

(here's what I use)
I open 2 terminals and an xconsole
In console 2,
    touch out ; tail -f out
In console 1,
cd to the php source dir
    rm -i configure
    ./buildconf
    ./configure --with-microcode --with-apxs <other options> | tee out | grep microcode > /dev/console
    make | tee out | grep microcode > /dev/console
This setup gives you microcode specific instructions to dev/console, errors to console 1 and dumps all other messages to console 2 as well as giving you a history log for debugging. You should definitly see microcode messages in the console at each point (config and make);
   Hope this helps
       Kenneth Cope, uk1.co.uk