The fun and games continue!! As with every Gearman implementation I’ve done, there are trick for each environment. Here are the Cliff Notes (originally sourced from [Planet MySQL page] with my own twist) for getting Gearman setup on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 (Elastic Computing 2) node running the default AWS distribution. As always, your experience may vary.

Install required libraries

First, get all the required libraries installed using yum:

[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y gcc
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y gcc-c++
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y gperf
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y boost
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y boost-devel
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y memcached
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y libuuid
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y libuuid-devel
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y libevent-devel
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y php-devel
[ec2-user@]$ sudo yum install -y php-xml


Compile Gearmand from Source

Very straight forward config and build.

[ec2-user@]$ cd gearmand-1.1.9
[ec2-user@]$ sudo ./configure --with-boost=/usr/include --prefix=/usr
[ec2-user@]$ sudo make
[ec2-user@]$ sudo make install


Compile Gearman PHP Library from Source

Fairly simple build, but you must first phpize.

[ec2-user@]$ cd gearman-1.1.1
[ec2-user@]$ sudo phpize
[ec2-user@]$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr
[ec2-user@]$ sudo make
[ec2-user@]$ sudo make install


Run ldconfig to Reload Dynmaic Library Cache

If you don’t run ldconfig, you’re going to get errors when you edit the php.ini file (last step).


bad:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/gearman.so' - libgearman.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[ec2-user@]$ sudo ldconfig


Edit the PHP ini file

This is the last step.

finding location of your php.ini file
[ec2-user@]$ php -i | grep php.ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc
Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php.ini


Edit your config file, adding these lines:

[ec2-user@]$ sudo vi /etc/php.ini
[Gearman]
; Add Gearman shared object to config
extension="gearman.so"


Now your install is complete!!