Building and installing HHVM on Debian 6

(This page is a work in progress. Instructions are for building the HipHop VM, or HHVM for Debian 6 64bit.)

Packages installation

echo "deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo 'APT::Default-release "stable";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51stable
apt-get update

apt-get install git-core cmake libmysqlclient-dev \
  libxml2-dev libmcrypt-dev libicu-dev openssl build-essential binutils-dev \
  libcap-dev libgd2-xpm-dev zlib1g-dev libtbb-dev libonig-dev libpcre3-dev \
  autoconf libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev wget memcached \
  libreadline-dev libncurses-dev libmemcached-dev libbz2-dev \
  libc-client2007e-dev php5-mcrypt php5-imagick libgoogle-perftools-dev \
  libcloog-ppl0 libelf-dev libdwarf-dev libunwind7-dev subversion \
  libtbb2/wheezy libtbb-dev/wheezy g++-4.7/wheezy gcc-4.7/wheezy \
  libc6-dev/wheezy libmpfr4/wheezy libgcc1/wheezy binutils/wheezy \
  libc6/wheezy libc-dev-bin/wheezy libc-bin/wheezy libgomp1/wheezy \
  libstdc++6-4.7-dev/wheezy libstdc++6/wheezy cmake/wheezy \
  libarchive12/wheezy cmake-data/wheezy libacl1/wheezy libattr1/wheezy \
  g++/wheezy cpp/wheezy gcc/wheezy make/wheezy libboost-thread1.49.0/wheezy \
  libboost-thread-dev/wheezy libgd2-xpm-dev/squeeze libfontconfig1-dev/squeeze \
  pkg-config/wheezy libdwarf-dev/wheezy binutils-dev/wheezy libboost-system1.49-dev/wheezy \
  libboost-program-options1.49-dev/wheezy libboost-filesystem1.49-dev/wheezy libboost-regex1.49-dev/wheezy

Getting HipHop source-code

mkdir dev
cd dev
git clone git://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php.git
cd hiphop-php
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`/bin/pwd`/..
export HPHP_HOME=`/bin/pwd`
cd ..

Building third-party libraries

libevent

git clone git://github.com/libevent/libevent.git
cd libevent
git checkout release-1.4.14b-stable
cat ../hiphop-php/hphp/third_party/libevent-1.4.14.fb-changes.diff | patch -p1
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

libCurl

Make sure that your system time is correct, otherwise ./configure will fail.

git clone git://github.com/bagder/curl.git
cd curl
./buildconf
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

Note: If you're building a version of cURL older than 7.28.0 (for whatever reason), you'll need to apply the patch in src/third_party to update it prior to the make step.

cat ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libcurl-7.22.1.fb-changes.diff | patch -p1

Google glog

svn checkout http://google-glog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ google-glog
cd google-glog
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

JEMalloc 3.0

wget http://www.canonware.com/download/jemalloc/jemalloc-3.0.0.tar.bz2
tar xjvf jemalloc-3.0.0.tar.bz2
cd jemalloc-3.0.0
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

Building HipHop

cd hiphop-php
export HPHP_HOME=`pwd`
export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
cmake .
make

Running programs

The hhvm binary can be found in hphp/hhvm/hhvm.

Errors

If any errors occur, it may be required to remove the CMakeCache.txt directory in the checkout.

If your failure was on the make command, try to correct the error and run make again, it should restart from the point it stops. If don't, try to remove as explained above.