PHP Manual: Installation

Installation

--with-ibm-db2[=DIR]

Include IBM DB2 support. DIR is the DB2 base install directory, defaults to /home/db2inst1/sqllib.

--with-custom-odbc[=DIR]

Include a user defined ODBC support. The DIR is ODBC install base directory, which defaults to /usr/local. Make sure to define CUSTOM_ODBC_LIBS and have some odbc.h in your include dirs. E.g., you should define following for Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.5.00 on QNX, prior to run configure script:

   CPPFLAGS="-DODBC_QNX -DSQLANY_BUG"
   LDFLAGS=-lunix
   CUSTOM_ODBC_LIBS="-ldblib -lodbc".

--with-iodbc

Include iODBC support, found via pkg-config.

--with-unixODBC[=DIR]

Include unixODBC support. DIR is the unixODBC base install directory, if not specified, defaults to finding it via pkg-config.

Windows users must enable php_odbc.dll in order to use this extension.

Deprecated Installation Flags

The following flags are no longer supported as of PHP 8.5:

--with-adabas[=DIR]: Include Adabas D support. DIR is the Adabas base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.
--with-dbmaker[=DIR]: Include DBMaker support. DIR is the DBMaker base install directory, defaults to where the latest version of DBMaker is installed (such as /home/dbmaker/3.6).
--with-empress[=DIR]: Include Empress support. DIR is the Empress base install directory, defaults to $EMPRESSPATH. This option only supports Empress Version 8.60 and above.
--with-empress-bcs[=DIR]: Include "Empress Local Access" support. DIR is the Empress base install directory, defaults to $EMPRESSPATH. This option only supports Empress Version 8.60 and above.
--with-esoob[=DIR]: Include Easysoft OOB support. DIR is the OOB base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/easysoft/oob/client.
--with-sapdb[=DIR]: Include SAP DB support. DIR is SAP DB base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.
--with-solid[=DIR]: Include Solid support. DIR is the Solid base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/solid.

The following flags are no longer supported as of PHP 7.3:

--with-birdstep[=DIR]: Include Birdstep support. DIR is the Birdstep base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/birdstep.