Building and installing HHVM on Ubuntu 12.10

Packages installation

Using sudo or as root user: (you may have to run sudo apt-get update first)

sudo apt-get install git-core cmake g++ libboost-dev 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 libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev \
  libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-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 subversion \
  libboost-regex-dev libmagickwand-dev libevent-dev ocaml-native-compilers \
  automake libxslt1-dev gawk

Getting HipHop source-code

mkdir dev
cd dev
git clone git://github.com/facebook/hhvm.git --depth=1
cd hhvm
git submodule update --init --recursive
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`pwd`/..
cd ..

Building third-party libraries

libCurl

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

git clone git://github.com/bagder/curl.git --depth=1
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 third-party to update it prior to the make step.

cat ../hhvm/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.x

wget http://www.canonware.com/download/jemalloc/jemalloc-3.5.1.tar.bz2
tar xjvf jemalloc-3.5.1.tar.bz2
cd jemalloc-3.5.1
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

Building HipHop

cd hhvm
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.