No more src folder in 1.9.1 tar.gz

[doyelese]

The 1.9.1 tar.gz does not contain a src folder rendering the build from source instructions invalid

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/php/current/setup.html#build-from-source

[maclonghorn]

Looks like this was removed with commit: 13e8b0b
My builds are now failing. I'm going to specify the tag: v1.9.0

[coding-bunny]

Ran into the same problem with our docker builds.
Please update the official documentation on how to build from source or fix this.

[doyelese]

Ran into the same problem with our docker builds. Please update the official documentation on how to build from source or fix this.

Our commands to get it working if you're interested or stuck

COPY apm-agent-php-1.9.1.tar.gz /etc/apm-agent/apm-agent-php-1.9.1.tar.gz
RUN cd /etc/apm-agent/ \
    && tar -xf apm-agent-php-1.9.1.tar.gz \
    && cd apm-agent-php-1.9.1/agent/native/ext \
    && phpize \
    && CFLAGS="-std=gnu99" ./configure --enable-elastic_apm \
    && make clean \
    && make \
    && make install

[doyelese]

Ran into the same problem with our docker builds. Please update the official documentation on how to build from source or fix this.

Our commands to get it working if you're interested or stuck

COPY apm-agent-php-1.9.1.tar.gz /etc/apm-agent/apm-agent-php-1.9.1.tar.gz
RUN cd /etc/apm-agent/ \
    && tar -xf apm-agent-php-1.9.1.tar.gz \
    && cd apm-agent-php-1.9.1/agent/native/ext \
    && phpize \
    && CFLAGS="-std=gnu99" ./configure --enable-elastic_apm \
    && make clean \
    && make \
    && make install

Actually this doesn't work, we are reverting to previous install method as this will let the elastic-apm show up in PHP modules but our elastic application stopped reporting to APM

[intuibase]

Hey @doyelese @maclonghorn @coding-bunny

I have updated documentation in this pull request

Can you follow new steps and check if it helped?

Best regards,
Pawel

[coding-bunny]

Doesn't seem to work for me.
Our Dockerfile does the following:

RUN mkdir -p /home/apm-agent && \
    cd /home/apm-agent && \
    git clone https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php.git apm && \
    cd apm && \
    /usr/local/bin/phpize CFLAGS="-std=gnu99" && \
    BUILD_ARCHITECTURE=linux-x86-64 make -f .ci/Makefile build && \
    PHP_CONFIG=php-config sudo cp agent/native/_build/${BUILD_ARCHITECTURE}-release/ext/elastic_apm-`$PHP_CONFIG --phpapi`.so `$PHP_CONFIG --extension-dir`

And since i am not familiar with PHP or the tooling used in this case, I don't know what to fix to make this work the way it did before.

[intuibase]

Hi @coding-bunny

The problem with your script is that you need to remove old style build command and keep it like this:

RUN mkdir -p /home/apm-agent && \
    cd /home/apm-agent && \
    git clone https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php.git apm && \
    cd apm && \
    BUILD_ARCHITECTURE=linux-x86-64 make -f .ci/Makefile build && \
    PHP_CONFIG=php-config sudo cp agent/native/_build/${BUILD_ARCHITECTURE}-release/ext/elastic_apm-`$PHP_CONFIG --phpapi`.so `$PHP_CONFIG --extension-dir`

but the problem here is that you're trying to run docker container inside docker container. You can bypass that by mounting docker socket, but it is tricky.

It will make more sense to build agent on the host you're building (or starting) your docker image and simply use Dockerfile ADD/COPY command to put agent files into container filesystem.

Latest build from source instruction can be found here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/php/master/setup.html#build-from-source

[alexbaileyuk]

This has also tripped us up today simply attempting to build for ARM.

Given that we would like to build the extension for ARM using this process, does Elastic provide an ARM version of this image elasticobservability/apm-agent-php-dev:native-build-gcc-12.2.0-linuxmusl-x86-64-0.0.2

[intuibase]

Hey @alexbaileyuk

Do you need aarch64v8 Alpine musl or glibc build?

Best regards,
Pawel

[alexbaileyuk]

@intuibase Alpine musl version please

[intuibase]

Hi @alexbaileyuk
I started working on that, will update you soon.
You can track progress in this issue #564

Regards,
Pawel

[intuibase]

@alexbaileyuk you can try building Alpine aarch64 version with latest 1.10.0 release. You can follow https://github.com/intuibase/apm-agent-php/blob/main/DEVELOPMENT.md or just compile it with:

## To compile the library for all supported PHP releases for musl libc Linux distributions for aarch64 (ARMv8) architecture. This build is not officially supported.
BUILD_ARCHITECTURE=linuxmusl-arm64 make -f .ci/Makefile build

[alexbaileyuk]

@alexbaileyuk you can try building Alpine aarch64 version with laters 1.10.0 release. You can follow https://github.com/intuibase/apm-agent-php/blob/main/DEVELOPMENT.md or just compile it with:

## To compile the library for all supported PHP releases for musl libc Linux distributions for aarch64 (ARMv8) architecture. This build is not officially supported.
BUILD_ARCHITECTURE=linuxmusl-arm64 make -f .ci/Makefile build

Thanks. I'll give that a go later this week. Do you ever plan to make it officially supported?

[intuibase]

Hey @alexbaileyuk

We are considering official support for ARM. The problem here is the lack of github support for this architecture.

[intuibase]

Hey @doyelese @coding-bunny

Have you tried building agent in the latest version (v1.10.0) ?

[coding-bunny]

I have not, simply not a priority at the moment for us.
Will try to get back to this when I can.

[intuibase]

I'm closing it now. Please try it out and reopen if it will fail to you.