pecl install cassandra throws: “error: Unable to load libcassandra”

Question

pecl install cassandra

produces an error:

configure: error: Unable to load libcassandra

ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/cassandra/

Answer 1

I tried installing cassandra driver for php on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS for PHP 5.5.9 using php-driver and cpp-driver as follows,

sudo apt-get install g++ clang make cmake libuv-dev libssl-dev git;
git clone https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver.git
mkdir cpp-driver/build
cd cpp-driver/build
cmake ..
make

and then,

sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev php5 php5-dev openssl libpcre3-dev
pecl install cassandra

But got an error,

checking for supported DataStax C/C++ driver version... nawk: cannot open /include/cassandra.h (No such file or directory)
configure: error: not supported. Driver version 2.4.2+ required (found )
ERROR: /tmp/pear/temp/cassandra/configure' failed

after coping,

cp cpp-driver/include/cassandra.h /usr/include/

again got another one,

checking for cass_cluster_new in -lcassandra... no
configure: error: Unable to load libcassandra
ERROR: /tmp/pear/temp/cassandra/configure' failed

After doing lot of research, I got following simple solution,

sudo wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/dependencies/libuv/v1.8.0/libuv_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/dependencies/libuv/v1.8.0/libuv-dev_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/cassandra/v2.5.0/cassandra-cpp-driver-dev_2.5.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/cassandra/v2.5.0/cassandra-cpp-driver_2.5.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libuv_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libuv-dev_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cassandra-cpp-driver-dev_2.5.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cassandra-cpp-driver_2.5.0-1_amd64.deb

Then just copy and enable extension,

sudo vim /etc/php5/mods-available/cassandra.ini
extension=cassandra.so;
php5enmod cassandra