So I wanted to give HipHop a run-through. It seems like an awesome project to be able to write PHP and compile to C++ code (nice for me when I spend most of my non-school life in PHP). However, while following the Ubuntu build instructions I couldn’t make the project due to errors with ~/hiphop/hiphop-php/src/runtime/base/server/ on line 98 (
libevent_server.cppevhttp_is_connection_ssl was undeclared I think). Sorry for the lack of more precision on the error – I’ve solved it and I’ve lost the display of the error on my terminal so I’m writing this post based on my bash history). (more…)