## Compiling PECL extensions statically into PHP

You might find that you need to build a PECL extension statically into your PHP binary. To do this, you'll need to place the extension source under the /your/phpsrcdir/ext/ directory and tell the PHP build system to regenerate its configure script.

    $ cd /your/phpsrcdir/ext
    $ pecl download extname
    $ gzip -d < extname.tgz | tar -xvf -
    $ mv extname-x.x.x extname

This will result in the following directory:

/your/phpsrcdir/ext/extname

From here, force PHP to rebuild the configure script, and then build PHP as normal:

$ cd /your/phpsrcdir
$ rm configure
$ ./buildconf --force
$ ./configure --help
$ ./configure --with-extname --enable-someotherext --with-foobar
$ make
$ make install

> Note: To run the 'buildconf' script you need autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4+ (newer versions of autoconf may work, but are not supported).

Whether `--enable-extname` or `--with-extname` is used depends on the extension. Typically an extension that does not require external libraries uses `--enable`. To be sure, run the following after buildconf:

$ ./configure --help | grep extname