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I am trying to compile PHP with mysql_pdo on CentOS 6 and I am having just one heck of a time trying to make it happen. Currently I am trying to compile PHP 5.2, but I am going to have to do this for 5.3 as I need to change versions.

Here is the configure command I am using:

./configure --with-apxs2 --with-mysql --with-mysqli --with-curl -enable-soap -enable-sockets --enable-mbstring --with-gd --with-mcrypt --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql

I installed MySQL and mysql-devel from a repository and the error I get is below:

configure: error: PDO_MYSQL configure failed. Please check config.log for more information

When I check config.log, the last line I see is:

configure:72788: checking for mysql_query in -lmysqlclient

I have a feeling that I am using the wrong value for the --with-pdo-mysql, but I have tried not giving it a path or telling it to use mysqlnd and I get an error saying it can't find mysql and if I leave it blank, it gives me the same error when I put the path in.

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: I have no idea if this is relevant or not, but I found that I have libmysqlclient.so files located at /usr/lib/mysql.

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  • Have you tried to install mysql-client too? Commented Apr 24, 2012 at 15:12
  • There is not a package called mysql-client that I am able to see. It looks like CentOS bundles the client into the regular mysql package. Commented Apr 24, 2012 at 15:24
  • A few ideas: a) You can try omitting the path entirely (--with-mysql-pdo), or using --with-mysql-pdo=/usr (it is not uncommon to retrieve the need paths from mysql_config - files can be symlinked to /usr/lib and /usr/include if you use an atypical install location) b) in PHP 5.3+ you can (and should) use the native driver instead: --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd c) finally, you usually shouldn't have to compile PHP. It is provided in the base repository, with additional modules available from EPEL. Commented Apr 24, 2012 at 23:37
  • Can you try installing libmysqlclient* and see if this resolves the issue? Commented Nov 29, 2015 at 20:00

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Try to avoid install software from source it's a bad practice. I'd suggest to install IUS Community repo . After that just install necessary packages

# yum install php53u-pdo.x86_64 php53u-mysql.x86_64
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