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To create custom ring tones for your iPhone the Mac way we'll require 2 pieces of software. First, iTunes obviously and secondly, iLife's Garageband. (Note: I used Garageband '08.)

To get started, open up Garageband and create a new project. If you already have an audio clip you want to use you can drop in  from Finder or if you would like to create a ring tone from a song already in iTunes you can simply drag and drop the media file from the iTunes playlist onto your Garageband timeline.

The requirements for an ring tone must be 40 seconds in length or less. To view the length in seconds on your project you can click on Control -> Show Time in LCD.

For whatever the reason might be that you need to compile Apache on Mac OS X (likely because I linked you here from another one of my blogs ), the steps are really simple.

Developer Tools

First things first! If you don't have a copy of Developer Tools installed then install it! Apple's Developer Tools will provide you with a number of required stuff to help us compile programs. (Later if you got a minute its fun to poke through it and see what cool Apps Apple just gave you for free.). You should be able to find it in one of your CDs that comes with your computer or OS X purchase. If you have a broadband connection you can download the latest version from ADC (Apple's Developer Connection) for free by going to http://developer.apple.com.

Apache

Next we'll need to obtain the latest version of Apache Web server by going to http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi. Download the latest Unix source of Apache (2.2.8 as of this writting) compressed in tar.gz format. Once that is complete open up a terminal window in the directory where you downloaded Apache and type the following commands:

$ tar -xvzf httpd-2.28.tar.gz
$ cd httpd-2.2.8
$ ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all
$ make
$ sudo make install

You will need to have the root password handy with the last command in order to install Apache unless you modified the configure command to build in a directory you have permissions to. I would advise to leave the configure command as is so that you will still have the ability to stop/start Apache from your System Preference's Sharing module.

If you are a Terminal junkie like myself you could use /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/apachectl to stop/start/restart apache from the command line. Read the man pages for more info how.

That about sums it up! Told ya it was really simple!

Compiling is so 80s and not the Mac way . If any system should have packages for everything it should be Mac! Well, before I drift off into why I think there should be packages for everything lets get back on topic.

I did this with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) but it should work with older versions (and newer ones). If you tried them and they work please post up!

Developer Utils

If you haven't already, find your install disc of Mac OS X and poke through it and install Developer Tools. You can also download it from ADC (Apple Developer Connection) for free from here. You'll need to do that before continuing.

MySQL

Next you'll need to download the latest stable version of MySQL from here (version 5.0.45) as of this writting. Unpack it by double clicking it, install, blah blah blah.

MySQL-Python

Lastly, download the latest mysql-python from here (version 1.2.2 as of this writting). Unpack it by double clicking and open up _mysql.c in your favorite text editor as they usually say.

Find the following lines and delete them (line ~36):

#ifndef uint
#define uint unsigned int
#endif

Next find these following lines:

uint port = MYSQL_PORT;
uint client_flag = 0;

... and chane them to:

unsigned port = MYSQL_PORT;
unsigned client_flag = 0;

Some people reported having problems trying to build this because for some odd reason they are missing a `mysql` link in its lib directory to itself. Peek inside of /usr/loocal/mysql/lib and see if you have a symbolic link named `mysql` pointing to itself. If you don't, open up your Terminal and run the following command:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

We're almost done Open up your Terminal into the directory you unpacked mysql-python and run the following:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Thats it! Enjoy!

Getting Started

You may want to recompile PHP on your Mac for a number reasons such as need a newer version, missing some features you need, testing, or whatever. Some of the most common reasons I found were people needing GD support because the version of PHP that comes with Mac OS X doesn't have it. In this I'll let you know what you need and how to get it done.

Apache

We'll need to recompile Apache even though it already comes with our system because for some unknown reason (to me) the compiled version of Apache that comes with our systems doesn't play too well when we compile PHP. Anyways without going into further details, read through this article real quick, Compiling Apache on Mac OS X, and come back here. Should only take ya like 5 minutes...

Time for PHP

Welcome back! Next, download the latest copy of the PHP source (5.2.5 as of this writting) compressed in tar.gz format from this URL, http://www.php.net/downloads.php. Once complete and you don't care about compiling PHP with any other options such as GD Support, MySQL, etc, and you just want the basic PHP then you can go back to your Terminal, cd into the directory where you downloaded PHP and run the following commands:

$ tar -xvzf php-5.2.5.tar.gz
$ cd php-5.2.5
$ ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli
$ make
$ sudo make install

Like Apache, you would need your root password to install PHP with the last command. Once everything is complete you can go into Sharing from your System Preferences and restart Web Sharing and you will notice you are running the version of PHP that you downloaded!

Note: Whenever editing your apache configuration you will need to restart it in order to see the new changes.

If you do want to build PHP with additional features then proceed below and follow the setup of instructions for each and either feature. For starters we can unpack PHP.

$ tar -xvzf php-5.2.5.tar.gz

Later when I say to build PHP with whatever ./configure command I just mean running the command from your Terminal while being in the directory where you unpacked PHP.

GD Support?

I won't leave you hanging wondering how to install GD since I brought it up earlier and its quite easy so lets do it! If you want jpeg support with GD then you need to install libjpeg. You can download the latest stable source code from http://www.ijg.org/files/. Once you get it go back to your terminal and run the following commands:

$ tar -zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
$ cd jpeg-6b
$ cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
$ cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
$ env CFLAGS="-O -g -arch i386 -arch ppc" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc" ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --enable-static
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a

That's that for libjpeg. Now if you also want png support we need to grab libpng from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html. When done, lets go back into our terminal and run the following commands:

$ tar -xvzf libpng-1.2.22.tar.gz
$ cd libpng-1.2.22
$ env CFLAGS="-O -g -arch i386 -arch ppc" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc" ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --disable-dependency-tracking
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libpng.a

Alright all set! Now we just have to go back to PHP and configure it with the options for GD. Below is the command:

$ ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/bin --with-png-dir=/usr/local/bin --with-gd

All I added were the last 3 options. If you didn't add libjpeg or libpng then you can remove them from the options respectively. After done configuring just remember to make and make install and your done!

MySQL

What PHP build would be complete without MySQL support? This step is super easy, simply go to http://www.mysql.com and download the latest stable version (5.0.45 as of this writing) for your platform and install it. The installation will place the files in a mysql directory in /usr/local. You can see which directory it was installed in by running the following command:

$ ls -lah /usr/local | grep mysql

Now that you've got the MySQL installation directory its helpful to create an alias directory without the version number at the end that will point to your current working version. This is also helpful so you can install multiple versions of software and when you want to switch between them you could simply change where the alias points to. If your MySQL directory was installed to /usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686 then this would be your command to create an alias:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686 /usr/local/mysql

Also, if you would like to access MySQL from the command line without having to type the full path to the binaries each them then I'd recommend appending your MySQL path to your $PATH environment variable:

$ echo "export PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin" >> ~/.profile

The above line appends MySQL to your $PATH environment variable and from here on every Terminal window you open will find its way to MySQL.

Continuing on with PHP, depending which MySQL support you want (MySQL, MySQLi, PDO, or all) then just pick out whatever you want and don't want from the line below:

--with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

Conclusion

There are many more options you can add to the configure script to set certain features. To view all the options available you can run ./configure --help and that will spit out just about all the ways you can configure your build. Below is the configure command I used:

$ ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli --with-zlib-dir=/usr --enable-trans-sid --with-xml --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-dbx --enable-sockets --with-iodbc=/usr --with-curl=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl=/usr --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --enable-soap --with-pear --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/bin
--with-png-dir=/usr/local/bin --with-gd

Its also important to note that when doing system updates, not just little security updates or other application updates, but big critical system updates that brings you from something like 10.5.0 to 10.5.1 might rid your Apache and/or PHP setup. Nothing bad will happen, they will just overwrite your setup with their update. If you happened to keep your build then you can just go back and run sudo make install or you can just download the latest versions of the software we used here and redo the steps.