## List of core configure options

Below is a partial list of configure options used by the PHP configure scripts when compiling in Unix-like environments. Most configure options are listed in their appropriate locations on the extension reference pages and not here. For a complete up-to-date list of configure options, run ./configure --help in your PHP source directory after running autoconf (see also the Installation chapter). You may also be interested in reading the » GNU configure documentation for information on additional configure options such as `--prefix=PREFIX`.

> Note:

> These are only used at compile time. If you want to alter PHP's runtime configuration, please see the chapter on Runtime Configuration.

- Miscellaneous
- PHP Behaviour
- Server

### Configure Options in PHP

#### Misc options

--enable-debug

  Compile with debugging symbols.

--with-layout=TYPE

  Sets how installed files will be laid out. Type is one of PHP (default) or GNU.

--with-pear=DIR

  Install PEAR in DIR (default PREFIX/lib/php).

--without-pear

  Do not install PEAR.

--enable-sigchild

  Enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler.

--disable-rpath

  Disable passing additional runtime library search paths.

--enable-libgcc

  Enable explicitly linking against libgcc.

--enable-php-streams

  Include experimental PHP streams. Do not use unless you are testing the code!

--with-zlib-dir[=DIR]

  Define the location of zlib install directory.

--with-tsrm-pthreads

  Use POSIX threads (default).

--enable-shared[=PKGS]

  Build shared libraries [default=yes].

--enable-static[=PKGS]

  Build static libraries [default=yes].

--enable-fast-install[=PKGS]

  Optimize for fast installation [default=yes].

--with-gnu-ld

  Assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no].

--disable-libtool-lock

  Avoid locking (might break parallel builds).

--with-pic

  Try to use only PIC/non-PIC objects [default=use both].

--enable-memory-limit

  Compile with memory limit support. (not available since PHP 5.2.1 - always enabled)

--disable-url-fopen-wrapper

  Disable the URL-aware fopen wrapper that allows accessing files via HTTP or FTP. (not available since PHP 5.2.5)

--enable-versioning

  Export only required symbols. See INSTALL for more information.

#### PHP options

--enable-maintainer-mode

  Enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer.

--with-config-file-path=PATH

  Sets the path in which to look for php.ini, defaults to `PREFIX/lib`.

--enable-safe-mode

  Enable safe mode by default.

  Warning

  This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0.

--with-exec-dir[=DIR]

  Only allow executables in DIR when in safe mode defaults to `/usr/local/php/bin`.

  Warning

  This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0.

--enable-magic-quotes

  Enable magic quotes by default.

  Warning

  This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0.

--disable-short-tags

  Disable the short-form <? start tag by default.

--enable-zend-multibyte

  Enables multibyte code in the language parser and scanner to be executed. When PHP is compiled with this option, it also enables the encoding directive in the declare construct.

  Warning

  This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0.

--with-libdir

  Specifies the directory where the libraries to build PHP exist on a Unix system. For 64bit systems, its needed to specify this argument to the `lib64` directory like: `--with-libdir=lib64`.

#### SAPI options

The following list contains the available SAPI&s (`Server Application Programming Interface`) for PHP.

--with-apxs[=FILE]

  Build shared Apache module. FILE is the optional pathname to the Apache apxs tool; defaults to apxs. Make sure you specify the version of apxs that is actually installed on your system and NOT the one that is in the apache source tarball.

--with-apache[=DIR]

  Build a static Apache module. DIR is the top-level Apache build directory, defaults to /usr/local/apache.

--with-mod_charset

  Enable transfer tables for mod_charset (Russian Apache).

--with-apxs2[=FILE]

  Build shared Apache 2.0 module. FILE is the optional pathname to the Apache apxs tool; defaults to apxs.

--disable-cli

  Disable building the CLI version of PHP (this forces --without-pear). More information is available in the section about Using PHP from the command line.

--enable-phpdbg

  Enable phpdbg interactive debugger SAPI module support in PHP 5.6.x or later.

--enable-embed[=TYPE]

  Enable building of the embedded SAPI library. TYPE is either `shared` or `static`, which defaults to `shared`.

--with-nsapi=DIR

  Specify path to the installed Netscape/iPlanet/SunONE Webserver.

--with-servlet[=DIR]

  Include servlet support. DIR is the base install directory for the JSDK. This SAPI requires the java extension must be built as a shared dl.

--disable-cgi

  Disable building CGI version of PHP.

  As of PHP 5.3.0 this argument enables FastCGI which previously had to be enabled using `--enable-fastcgi`.

--enable-force-cgi-redirect

  Enable the security check for internal server redirects. You should use this if you are running the CGI version with Apache.

  As of PHP 5.3.0 this argument is enabled by default and no longer exists. To disable this, the cgi.force_redirect ini directive should be set to `0`.

--enable-discard-path

  If this is enabled, the PHP CGI binary can safely be placed outside of the web tree and people will not be able to circumvent .htaccess security.

  As of PHP 5.3.0 this argument is disabled by default and no longer exists. To enable this feature the cgi.discard_path ini directive must be set to `1`.

--enable-fastcgi

  If this is enabled, the CGI module will be built with support for FastCGI also.

  As of PHP 5.3.0 this argument no longer exists and is enabled by `--enable-cgi` instead.

--disable-path-info-check

  If this is disabled, paths such as /info.php/test?a=b will fail to work. For more information see the » Apache Manual.

  As of PHP 5.3.0 this argument is enabled by default and no longer exists. To disable this feature the cgi.fix_pathinfo ini directive must be set to `0`.