[Centos 6.4] ICU installation via compilation

Just a quick guide to install ICU to be compliant with composer mandatory dependency ICU

As root: # We start to uninstall default php-intl wich is compiled with ICU 42 (need at least 49) yum remove php-intl yum -y install php-devel php-pear cd /root mkdir src cd src # Download icu4c source wget http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/51.2/icu4c-51_2-src.tgz tar zxf icu4c-51_2-src.tgz cd icu/source # Compiling and installing in /opt/icu5c-51_2 folder ./configure --prefix=/opt/icu5c-51_2 && make && make install # Compiling PHP intl extension via pecl pecl install intl downloading intl-2.0.1.tgz ... Starting to download intl-2.0.1.tgz (149,430 bytes) .................................done: 149,430 bytes 111 source files, building running: phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20100412 Zend Module Api No: 20100525 Zend Extension Api No: 220100525 Specify where ICU libraries and headers can be found [DEFAULT] : /opt/icu5c-51_2 # Create icu.conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ with the content: /opt/icu5c-51_2/lib/ # Run ldconfig # Edit /etc/php.ini add ~ line 937 the line extension=intl.so #Then restart apache service httpd restart

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As root: # We start to uninstall default php-intl wich is compiled with ICU 42 (need at least 49) yum remove php-intl yum -y install php-devel php-pear cd /root mkdir src cd src # Download icu4c source wget http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/51.2/icu4c-51_2-src.tgz tar zxf icu4c-51_2-src.tgz cd icu/source # Compiling and installing in /opt/icu5c-51_2 folder ./configure --prefix=/opt/icu5c-51_2 && make && make install # Compiling PHP intl extension via pecl pecl install intl downloading intl-2.0.1.tgz ... Starting to download intl-2.0.1.tgz (149,430 bytes) .................................done: 149,430 bytes 111 source files, building running: phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version:         20100412 Zend Module Api No:      20100525 Zend Extension Api No:   220100525 Specify where ICU libraries and headers can be found [DEFAULT] : /opt/icu5c-51_2 # Create icu.conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ with the content: /opt/icu5c-51_2/lib/ # Run ldconfig # Edit /etc/php.ini add ~ line 937 the line extension=intl.so #Then restart apache service httpd restart

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