How to install gettext on MacOS X

Question

How do I install gettext on mac?

I get this error on one of my php pages:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bindtextdomain()

and it's because I don't have gettext installed.

I can't find good instructions on how to install it. I've tried using:

brew install gettext

and it puts some files here:

/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.2

but I don't know what to do with that.

Update: Instead of trying to use homebrew, now I tried this method unsucessfully using wget:

Download with wget

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.18.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf gettext-0.18.2.tar.gz
cd gettext-0.18.2
./configure
make

make check is optional to run self-tests

make check

Errors I got:

make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1

make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2

make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

sudo make install

That installs it here: /usr/local/share/gettext

And the documentation here: /usr/local/share/doc/gettext

but how do I make my php pages be able to use gettext and the bindtextdomain() function?

Answer 1

You can use brew to link gettext after installing it

brew install gettext
brew link --force gettext

Answer 2

I found an easiest working solution, which still works on mavericks. Here it is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11792640/512504

Answer 3

If reinstall php is acceptable, try to download and install the php version you want from here.

In my case, I used 7.0 version. Steps to reinstall:

1. Open terminal and run curl -s https://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.0

2. The installed php will reside at /usr/local/php5-7.0.31-20180903-120321/lib (I'm not sure why the directory name is php5-7xxxx, but the installed php version is 7.0)

3. Edit apache2 config at /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf (make a backup if necessary)

4. Replace LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so with LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/php5-7.0.31-20180903-120321/libphp7.so (remember to uncomment the "#" symbol), then save and exit.

5. Finally, run apachectl restart to restart your apache server.

Answer 4

Posting alternative way, without homebrew:

cd /tmp

# Download with curl, as it is available by default, without brew
$ curl -O https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.20.1.tar.gz

# Extract and cd into created directory
$ tar xvfz gettext-0.20.1.tar.gz && cd gettext-0.20.1

# Configure sources
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gettext/0_20_1 \
  --disable-dependency-tracking \
  --disable-silent-rules \
  --disable-debug \
  --disable-java \
  --disable-csharp \
  --without-git \
  --without-cvs \
  --without-xz \
  --with-included-gettext

# Comile
$ make

# Install to system
$ sudo make install

Linking all libs:

#!/bin/bash

### /usr/local/bin
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/autopoint /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/envsubst /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/gettext /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/gettextize /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/gettext.sh /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgattrib /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgcat /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgcmp /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgcomm /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgconv /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgen /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgexec /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgfilter /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgfmt /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msggrep /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msginit /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgmerge /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msgunfmt /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/msguniq /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/ngettext /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/recode-sr-latin /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/bin/xgettext /usr/local/bin/

### /usr/local/include
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/include/autosprintf.h /usr/local/include/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/include/gettext-po.h /usr/local/include/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/include/textstyle /usr/local/include/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/include/textstyle.h /usr/local/include/

### /usr/local/lib
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/gettext /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libasprintf.a /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libasprintf.la /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libasprintf.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libasprintf.so.0 /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libasprintf.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextlib-0.20.1.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextlib.la /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextlib.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextpo.a /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextpo.la /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextpo.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextpo.so.0 /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextpo.so.0.5.5 /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextsrc-0.20.1.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextsrc.la /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libgettextsrc.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libtextstyle.a /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libtextstyle.la /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libtextstyle.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libtextstyle.so.0 /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/libtextstyle.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/lib/preloadable_libintl.so /usr/local/lib/

### /usr/local/share/aclocal
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/gettext.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/host-cpu-c-abi.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/iconv.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/intlmacosx.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/lib-ld.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/lib-link.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/nls.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/po.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/
ln -s /usr/local/gettext/0_20_1/share/aclocal/progtest.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/

Add to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/local/share/aclocal/:$ACLOCAL_PATH