What is PECL Perl ?

PECL Perl is extension embeds Perl Interpreter into PHP. It allows execute Perl files, evaluate Perl code, access Perl variables and instantiate Perl objects.

In this tutorial i will describe how to compile PECL perl with PHP 5.3.x
I found that latest pecl perl-1.0.0.tgz can't compile with PHP 5.3.x

If you trying to compile pecl perl with PHP 5.3.x it will shows error like below :

/root/perl-1.0.0/php_perl.c:200: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/root/perl-1.0.0/php_perl.c: In function âphp_perl_zval_to_sv_refâ:
/root/perl-1.0.0/php_perl.c:343: error: ‘zval’ has no member named ‘is_ref’
/root/perl-1.0.0/php_perl.c:1779: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
make: *** [php_perl.lo] Error 1

So after googling i found that pecl perl svn already have a patch there.
below are the steps how to patch and compile pecl perl with PHP 5.3.x

Download and Extract PECL Perl  Package

#cd /root/
#wget http://pecl.php.net/get/perl-1.0.0.tgz
#tar -zxvf perl-1.0.0.tgz
#cd perl-1.0.0

Download php_perl.c from SVN pecl perl and replace with the old one

you can download it using svn from this url http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/perl/trunk/
but the strange thing is i can't download php_perl.c with svn and i don't know why
but finally i download it manually to my client and uploaded to /root/perl-1.0.0
if the ftp client ask to replace php_perl.c just press OK to replace the old php_perl.c file

Configure and Compiling Pecl Perl

#cd /root/perl-1.0.0
#/usr/local/bin/phpize
#./configure --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl --with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php-config
#make
#make install

Edit php.ini

#pico /usr/local/lib/php.ini
### add perl.so in extension section ####
 
extension=perl.so

Restarting apache

#/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
#/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

See the result with phpinfo

#cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
#pico phpinfo.php

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Open a Web Browser

http://<youripaddress>/phpinfo.php

You should see a perl extensions loaded in your phpinfo page