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How to install XDebug on MacOS (XAMPP)

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Matej Jelluš

When you want to create codecoverage report with phpunit, you need to have XDebug installed otherwise you get just error "No code coverage driver is available". I successfully installed it on Windows but I had lot of issues installing it on MacOS.

Steps​

  • check lot of websites and see that there is still new and new issue
  • prepare everything
  • clone xdebug project
  • build xdebug
  • install
  • enable xdebug module

Prepare everything​

MacOS has php installed with xcode, but I needed to use newer version I am already using with XAMPP. So I just created a link to XAMPP version:

sudo ln /Applications/XAMPP/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php

In XDebug readme is, that you need to use phpize. After I linked that one, it had another problem - "fatal error: 'php.h' file not found". To solve also this problem, you have to link php-config either.

sudo ln /Applications/XAMPP/bin/phpize /usr/local/bin/phpize

sudo ln /Applications/XAMPP/bin/php-config /usr/local/bin/php-config

Clone XDebug project​

You need to clone the source code, so that you are able to build it:

git clone git://github.com/xdebug/xdebug.git

Build XDebug and install it​

phpize

make clean

make

make install

Enable XDebug module​

The last step is to add zend_extension="xdebug.so" in the end of php.ini file. If you do not know where this file is located, just run php --ini.

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