After upgrading to PHP 5.4.3 (which is the first version of PHP 5.4 available in the FreeBSD port), I found that the pecl-tokyo_tyrant could not be compiled. Here is the error messages:

cd /usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant
sudo make

===>  pecl-tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0 cannot install: doesn't work with PHP version : 5 (Doesn't support PHP 5).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant.

/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:1827: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'php_tokyo_tyrant_class_methods'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:1867: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'php_tokyo_tyrant_table_class_methods'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:1911: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'php_tokyo_tyrant_query_class_methods'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:1936: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'php_tokyo_tyrant_iterator_class_methods'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c: In function 'php_tokyo_tyrant_query_object_new':
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2001: error: 'zend_class_entry' has no member named 'default_properties'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c: In function 'php_tokyo_tyrant_iterator_object_new':
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2052: error: 'zend_class_entry' has no member named 'default_properties'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c: In function 'php_tokyo_tyrant_object_new_ex':
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2090: error: 'zend_class_entry' has no member named 'default_properties'
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c: In function 'zm_startup_tokyo_tyrant':
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2166: error: 'php_tokyo_tyrant_class_methods' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2166: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2166: error: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2171: error: 'php_tokyo_tyrant_table_class_methods' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2176: error: 'php_tokyo_tyrant_query_class_methods' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0/tokyo_tyrant.c:2182: error: 'php_tokyo_tyrant_iterator_class_methods' undeclared (first use in this function)
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant/work/tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant.

Basically, it means that the pecl-tokyo_tyrant is not happy with the new version of PHP 5.4. I’ve tried several methods, including using pkg_add, compiling from source, copying a working tokyo_tyrant.so etc, unfortunately none of these methods works.

Finally, I found that the maintainer of this package has made a new version available(0.6.2) at github. Here is how I did it:

First, go to here to grab the source code. Make sure that you download the tag.gz version because it has the file attribute available.

Second, let’s remove the pecl-tokyo_tyrant from your system. You can either do it in the port or pkg_delete:

From port:

cd /usr/ports/databases/pecl-tokyo_tyrant
sudo make deinstall

Or using pkg_delete:

sudo pkg_delete pecl-tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0

Now, extract the files and compile it from source:

tar -zxvf mkoppanen-php-tokyo_tyrant-0.6.0-2-gb0d7e0c.tar.gz
cd mkoppanen-php-tokyo_tyrant-b0d7e0c
sudo phpize
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

and don’t forget to include the .so file in your configuration:

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini

Add the following (if not available) to the end of the file:

extension=tokyo_tyrant.so

Finally, let’s restart the Apache:

sudo apachectl stop
sudo apachectl start

That’s it! Have fun with Tokyo Tyrant with PHP 5.4.

–Derrick