Compiling project

This document will help you compile and build the package file.

Prepare PHP and Rust environments.

Install PHP Environment

For Debian user:

sudo apt install php-cli php-dev

For MacOS user:

brew install php

Install Rust Environment

Install Rust globally.

For Linux user:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sudo sh -s -- --no-modify-path
sudo ln -s /root/.cargo/bin/rustup /usr/local/bin/rustup
sudo ln -s /root/.cargo/bin/cargo /usr/local/bin/cargo

For MacOS user:

brew install rust

Install requirement

For Debian user:

sudo apt install gcc make libclang protobuf-compiler

For MacOS user:

brew install protobuf

Build and install Skywalking PHP Agent from archive file

For Linux user:

sudo pecl install skywalking_agent-x.y.z.tgz

For MacOS user:

Running the pecl install command with the php installed in brew may encounter the problem of mkdir, please refer to Installing PHP and PECL Extensions on MacOS.

pecl install skywalking_agent-x.y.z.tgz

The extension file skywalking_agent.so is generated in the php extension folder, get it by run php-config --extension-dir.