Error building : fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
The latest version of Phalcon uses PCRE libraries.
You can install them like so:
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
and then try and install Phalcon again
For CentOS you will need to use
sudo yum install pcre-devel
Credits: @xgretsch
For Mac you can use
brew install pcre
Credits @Brandon Romano
For Mac without brew
Go to https://www.pcre.org/ and download latest pcre:,
tar -xzvf pcre-8.42.tar.gz
cd pcre-8.42
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre-8.42
make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/pcre-8.42 /usr/sbin/pcre
ln -s /usr/local/pcre-8.42/include/pcre.h /usr/include/pcre.h
Credits @user1377324
To include pcre.h file, search the package archives for the pcre.h file. To do this I use a command called apt-file (
apt-get install apt-file
and
apt-file update
if you don’t have it installed).
Then search for the pcre package:
apt-file search -x "/pcre.h$"
The -x informs the command that I want to use a regular expression as the pattern. apt-file provided me with three hits:
- kannel-dev: /usr/include/kannel/gwlib/pcre.h
- libajax6-dev: /usr/include/ajax/pcre.h
- libpcre3-dev: /usr/include/pcre.h
The last one is the one I want:
apt-get install libpcre3-dev
This will solve the problem with pcre.h file compilation problem. Hope it will help others, who may come to find an answer to this thread.
For mac osx maverick you can use
brew install pcre
if it gives you error, you can use
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/pcre.h /usr/include/
sudo pecl install apc
I have installed pcre via homebrew in Big Sur, so linked as:
sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/include/pcre2.h /usr/local/include/