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I am trying to compile PHP on Ubuntu 12.10 with LDAP support. I have run:

apt-get install libldap2-dev

That installs the header files to /usr/include.

However, when attempting to compile it is unable to locate the header files. I have tried to with --with-ldap=/usr/include as well and it still fails with:

configure: error: Cannot find ldap.h

I also tried symlinking with the following and I still get the same error: 

ln -s /usr/lib/ldap* /usr/lib/

Thanks in advance for your help.

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    I'm sure I'm missing something here, but why are you compiling LDAP support in Ubuntu? There is a package in the repos for it: sudo apt-get install php5-ldap Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 16:29
  • php5-ldap installs php5-common, which for some reason installs PHP 5.4.6~ubuntu CLI. I'm compiling PHP 5.4.8 from source. Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 22:05

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https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49876 explains this behavior.

To fix this, simply run the following:

ln -fs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libldap.so /usr/lib/

Vola, compiling away.

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  • Also worth noting in case you're wondering... --with-libdir=lib64 causes other parts of the configuration to fail. This is why you have to symlink lib64 libraries individually. Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 16:25
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    confirmed fix for Ubuntu 13.10 Commented Oct 21, 2013 at 20:47

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