Building and installing HHVM on RHEL 7

We are not using sudo in this guide. Do it yourself or just be root here, for a short while.

Prepare

Make sure that you have rhel-7-server-optional-rpms repository enabled as several of the required packages are there.

subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

Packages for building

yum install git svn cpp make autoconf automake libtool patch memcached \
bzip2 gcc-c++ cmake wget boost-devel mysql-devel pcre-devel gd-devel \
libxml2-devel expat-devel libicu-devel bzip2-devel openldap-devel \
libedit-devel libcap-devel binutils-devel pam-devel elfutils-libelf-devel \
libcurl-devel libmemcached-devel tbb-devel libdwarf-devel \
ImageMagick-devel libxslt-devel ocaml libevent-devel libyaml-devel \
readline-devel libzip-devel sqlite-devel gmp-devel gperf

Some of the packages are not found in RHEL repositories, so you need to install them from sources yourself.

Google Glog

cd /opt
wget https://google-glog.googlecode.com/files/glog-0.3.3.tar.gz &&
tar xvzf glog-0.3.3.tar.gz && cd glog-0.3.3 &&
./configure && make && make install

Oniguruma

cd /opt
wget http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/archive/onig-5.9.5.tar.gz &&
tar xvzf onig-5.9.5.tar.gz && cd onig-5.9.5 &&
./configure && make && make install

or

cd /opt
wget https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/releases/download/v5.9.6/onig-5.9.6.tar.gz &&
tar xvzf onig-5.9.6.tar.gz && cd onig-5.9.6 &&
./configure && make && make install

Mcrypt

cd /opt
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mcrypt/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz &&
tar zxvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz && cd libmcrypt-2.5.8 &&
./configure && make && make install

Jemalloc

cd /opt
wget http://www.canonware.com/download/jemalloc/jemalloc-3.6.0.tar.bz2 &&
tar jxvf jemalloc-3.6.0.tar.bz2 && cd jemalloc-3.6.0 &&
./configure && make && make install

LZ4

cd /opt
wget https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4/archive/r124.tar.gz &&
tar zxvf r124.tar.gz && cd lz4-r124 &&
make && make install PREFIX=/usr/local

Getting HHVM source code and building

cd /opt
git clone git://github.com/facebook/hhvm.git --depth=1
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`pwd`
cd hhvm
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake .
make # Add -jN, with N being numcores+1 to maximize build performance.
make install

RHEL Service Daemon

To have HHVM start as a system daemon process on RHEL once you have complied HHVM you will want to create an HHVM service. Below you will find an example of a systemd file. This will allow you to start HHVM as a daemon by issuing service start and stop commands and enable HHVM to be run on boot.

Please note a config file needs to exist at /etc/hhvm/server.ini, and username for HHVM is nginx or apache depending on which http server you have installed. This can be changed in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/hhvm.service script file to match your setup.

hhvm.service

[Unit]
Description=HipHop Virtual Machine

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/hhvm -m daemon -u nginx -c /etc/hhvm/server.ini
ExecStop=rm /var/run/hhvm.pid
PIDFile=/var/run/hhvm.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start HHVM

systemctl start hhvm

Enable HHVM on boot

systemctl enable hhvm