Once I get HipHop setup on CentOS 5 I will post a download link to the VMWare image for all to download.
I’ve been installing my HipHop for PHP sandbox today (on Ubuntu Karmic). Looks like I need to patch libcurl and libevent. Definitely makes more and more sense to build a separate sandbox and not destroy your development (or production! 
) environment for this.
-- Looking for curl_multi_select -- Looking for curl_multi_select - not found CMake Error at CMake/HPHPFindLibs.cmake:78 (message): Custom libcurl is required with HipHop patches Call Stack (most recent call first): CMake/HPHPSetup.cmake:2 (include) src/CMakeLists.txt:18 (include)-- Found ICU header files in /usr/include -- Found ICU libraries: /usr/lib/libicuuc.so CMake Error at CMake/HPHPFindLibs.cmake:108 (message): ICU is too old, found 4.0 and we need 4.2 Call Stack (most recent call first): CMake/HPHPSetup.cmake:2 (include) src/CMakeLists.txt:18 (include) -- Found Intel TBB -- Found mcrypt: /usr/lib/libmcrypt.so CMake Error at CMake/HPHPFindLibs.cmake:151 (message): You need to install libcap Call Stack (most recent call first): CMake/HPHPSetup.cmake:2 (include) src/CMakeLists.txt:18 (include)
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
Unable to find the Boost header files. Please set BOOST_ROOT to the root directory containing Boost or BOOST_INCLUDEDIR to the directory containing Boost's headers. Call Stack (most recent call first): CMake/HPHPFindLibs.cmake:20 (find_package) CMake/HPHPSetup.cmake:2 (include) src/CMakeLists.txt:18 (include)
CMake Error at CMake/FindMySQL.cmake:112 (MESSAGE): Cannot find MySQL. Include dir: MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND library dir: Call Stack (most recent call first): CMake/HPHPFindLibs.cmake:30 (find_package) CMake/HPHPSetup.cmake:2 (include) src/CMakeLists.txt:18 (include)
As soon as FaceBook releases the source code of HipHop this page will have a step by step tutorial on how to set up a sandbox environment on a common Linux distribution (probably Ubuntu, maybe CentOS as well). I will be using a VM-Ware Fusion box, but the tutorial will apply to physical machines aswell.
Why would you want a sandbox? To try how your applications work with HipHop without breaking your everyday development process with a rather fresh piece of software.