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stoencold111

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Registered: 2016-07-06

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Unable to install V8JS php extension. A file missing in V8 package

Has anyone successfully installed V8JS, a php extension, with this V8 package?

I found that the package is missing the file libv8_libplatform.a. as seen in the following log.
I have checked /usr/lib/v8/ and the only files there are

/usr/lib/v8/d8
/usr/lib/v8/libv8.so
/usr/lib/v8/natives_blob.bin
/usr/lib/v8/snapshot_blob.bin

There isn't much info online about V8JS or V8 and arch linux. Anyone has experience of installing it?

sudo pecl install v8js
downloading v8js-1.3.1.tgz ...
Starting to download v8js-1.3.1.tgz (90,439 bytes)
.....................done: 90,439 bytes
27 source files, building
running: phpize

Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20151012
Zend Module Api No:      20151012
Zend Extension Api No:   320151012
Please provide the installation prefix of libv8 [autodetect] : 
building in /tmp/pear/temp/pear-build-rootwVgCom/v8js-1.3.1
running: /tmp/pear/temp/v8js/configure --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config --with-v8js
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /usr
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/lib/php/modules
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for V8 Javascript Engine... yes, shared
checking for V8 files in default path... found in /usr
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for C standard version... c++11
checking how to allow c++11 narrowing... -Wno-narrowing
checking for V8 version... 5.1.281.12
checking for libv8_libplatform.a... not found
configure: error: Please provide libv8_libplatform.a next to the libv8.so, see README.md for details
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/v8js/configure --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config --with-v8js' failed

Last edited by stoencold111 (2016-07-06 09:53:15)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Unable to install V8JS php extension. A file missing in V8 package

Can't the static linking be disabled?

Also never ever run tools like pecl as root, it will cause a giant mess on your system. If you want to install things system wide then write a PKGBUILD.

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stoencold111

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Registered: 2016-07-06

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Re: Unable to install V8JS php extension. A file missing in V8 package

What do you mean by disabling the static linking?
I have tried fownloading the file from here to /usr/lib/v8, but it still gives me the same error