Comments on: PHP Debugger on Mac (dbg) – Fail

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:46:52 +0000

Ugh. Forget all this.. just get MacGDBp. It’s free, too, and works really well.

http://www.bluestatic.org/software/macgdbp/

By: dmitri

dmitri — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:31:10 +0000

just few notes about dbg under Mac. If you compile and install php then dbg.so, it will not work. Reason is pretty simple: Mac's strip strips too much symbols, yet not only debugger's and resulting binaries can't be dynamically loaded. Stupid install script calls strip without certain arguments to avoid such problems yet. So, to get working binaries, do not install them at all. Grab what compiler produced in the .libs or .modules directory (for dbg.so and php respectively) and either do not run strip or at least consult with man to see how to strip without harm.

Then it will work.

Thanks for attention :)

By: Vik Rubenfeld

Vik Rubenfeld — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:35:42 +0000

Rob, thanks very much for posting this. I've been trying to get DBG.SO installed for 3 days!

I would add that Mac users may need to activate PHP on their machines, by editing /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf, and removing the comment sign (#) from the beginning of the lines that activate PHP. On my system, these lines are:

LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so ... AddModule mod_php4.c

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By: rob

rob — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:05:10 +0000

MAMP is good stuff. The free version is close to what I was looking for in a easy start / stop all-in-one thing (I think the things I'd complain about are in the pro version which is no in my budget at the moment). I'll have to try dbg with MAMP.

xdebug looks to be windows / linux only (or pre-comipled that way anyway), and it doesn't quite look like what I want, but I'll check it out later.

Thanks for the tips Aaron

By: Aaron Heimlich

Aaron Heimlich — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:54:17 +0000

Have you tried getting it to work with MAMP (http://www.living-e.com/products/MAMP-PRO/download.php)? or tried Xdebug (http://www.xdebug.org)?

By: rob

rob — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:34:48 +0000

Thanks Russ – I was stoked to hear XAMMP had a Mac version, but sadly “Intel only” :-/

I might have to look at trying to compile that myself later. And I agree, you’re right it’s a much cleaner way to do development. I use the built in cf server when doing cf work, and http://locomotive.raaum.org/ when doing rails work. I would prefer a standalone, pre built environment… someday… someday…

By: Russ Johnson

Russ Johnson — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:38:51 +0000

Hey Rob, that sounds like alot of work! I had a need to do some php work a few weeks ago and I went with an old favorite for apache, php and mysql… the xampp project. They have a mac version now and I have found it run perfectly. Not sure how it would work with that debugger but if it works it would be a lot less work.

I prefer these types of programs on my mac anyways for development since you can just drag the folder to the trash if you want to get rid of it. I have been using Locomotive for Ruby on Rails development as well, same concept.

XAMMP – http://www.apachefriends.org/