How to install gRPC extension on your MAC computer?
There is couple of steps you would need to perform, in this tutorial we will go one by one.

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Image by StockSnap from Pixabay 

 

If you are not familiar with gRPC, please read official documentation about it:

 

Check do you have it already, type this in your terminal window

                    php -m

in the printed list check do you have grpc module, if not try to install it with this command:

                    sudo pecl install grpc

and if you get this error: Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script. 

                    Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20180731
Zend Module Api No:      20180731
Zend Extension Api No:   320180731
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.

ERROR: `phpize' failed

we would have to first fix autoconf issue.

Here is the lists of commands to install it: 

go to your project folder and grab it with curl:

                    curl -OL http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz

extract it and make it:

                    tar xzf autoconf-latest.tar.gz
cd autoconf-*
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make

if you get this error xcrun: error: invalid active developer path you would have to download and install the Command Line Tools package and fix the problem:

                    xcode-select --install

After that you could get this popup:

Accept it and wait until it is installed

Now run this command again (note: you should be in cd autoconf-* folder still) :

                    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

and then run make command

                    make

and then 

                    sudo make install

ok, now we can run again sudo pecl install grpc to finally install gRPC extension:

                    sudo pecl install grpc

this will take some time, so go and drink a ☕️ and wait until is finished...

...

OK, now when it is finished you should see this message:

                    Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/grpc.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/grpc-1.35.0
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=grpc.so" to php.ini

And now we have to enable it in our php.ini

To locate your php ini file, type this:

                     php -i | grep 'Configuration File'

in my case, location is:

                    Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini

so let's add our grpc.so to it:

login as admin:

                    sudo nano

add php extension by using the command line:

                    echo "extension=grpc.so" >> /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini

restart the apache

                    apachectl restart

cool, now if you type php - m you should see grpc in your list of enabled modules.

easy peasy lemon squeezy 😀