Installing Memcached for MAMP PRO 1.9 running php 5.3.2 on OSX

Installing Memcached for MAMP PRO 1.9 running php 5.3.2 on OSX

Step 1 – Install XCode (it’s available from the Mac App Store now).

Step 2 – Make the Mamp php files executable

sudo chmod +xrw /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/p*

Step 3 – Grab the memcached source

cd ~
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.2.5.tgz
tar -zxvf memcache-2.2.5.tgz
cd memcache-2.2.5

Step 4 – PHPize the Memcache extension files

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phpize

Step 5 – Compile the Memcached extension

CFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os' LDFLAGS='-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os' ./configure --disable-dependancy-tracking --disable-shared -enable-static
make
sudo cp modules/memcache.so /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/.

Step 6 – Add the extension to the php.ini file

extension=memcache.so

To do this open the MAMP application, go to File > Edit Template > PHP 5.3.2 php.ini

Save the file, stop MAMP and start it back up. Take a look inside your php log to see if there were any errors starting up.

Step 7 – Start Memcached

memcached -d -m 8 -M -p 11211

This starts memcached on the default port and assigns 8MB of RAM.

Step 8 – Check Memcached is running

telnet localhost 11211
stats

Step 9 – Relax, you should be all set up now.

As i’m a it of a CodeIgniter nut, i’ve been using this Memcached library (default settings work out of the box).