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This assumes you know what you’re doing and just want a checklist, but it’s all linkified anyway:

  1. Download and build GD;
  2. Grab the 64 bit MySQL binaries, put them in /usr/local, chown it to “root” and the data subdir to “_mysql” and then change the mysql symlink to point to the new directory; and then
  3. Download and build PHP in 64 bit mode.

Simple, but a lot of people seem to be complaining about architecture mismatches.

Written by Jack

March 17th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

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  1. Aren’t there native binaries or Fink packages or something? You shouldn’t have to build software unless you want to (Gentoo).

    Jared

    17 Mar 10 at 6:30 pm

  2. There are lots of package installers for OSX/Darwin. These means I don’t trust any of them — which is canonical?

    … And that damn comment whitespace is back! Grrr.

    Jack

    17 Mar 10 at 6:55 pm

  3. Over here in open source land, outside the Reality Distortion Field, no software is canonical: you get to choose.

    Jared

    18 Mar 10 at 1:01 pm

  4. Choice is scary. What if the software turns out all retarded? I’m pro-life-inside-the-field. :)

    Jack

    18 Mar 10 at 1:47 pm

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