Modernizing My Dotfiles
Stefan Zweifel shares how he reorganized his dotfiles into a minimal setup, split private config into a separate repo, and streamlined setup and Brewfile syncing with a few small scripts.
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
Posts tagged with homebrew
How to upgrade to PHP 8.2 on Mac (and Laravel Valet) original
Now that PHP 8.2 has been released, it's time to upgrade the PHP of your Mac.
If you're using Brew - which you probably are - there are only a few steps involved.
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Fixing the dreaded "'pcre2.h' file not found" error when installing imagick original
Whenever I upgrade PHP, I seem to have troubles installing imagick. This command pecl install imagick always results in an error "'pcre2.h' file not found". To fix that error, you should issue these commands: brew install pcre2 ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pcre2/10.39/include/pcre2.h…
Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac
Concise instructions on how to install PHP 8 locally.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac
As usual, my colleague Brent wrote a post with clear instructions on how to upgrade. As a bonus he also provides some necessary steps to get PHP 7.4 to work in Valet.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Easily switch PHP versions in Laravel Valet original
Besides enjoying some greenfield work, we often have to work on legacy projects at Spatie too. Sometimes those projects don't run on the latest PHP version. I this blogpost I'd like to show you a way to switch PHP version easily when using Laravel Valet. (I know you could also use Docker or…
Migrate your local PHP 7.2 setup to Homebrew v1.5.*
Recently Homebrew reorganised some PHP stuff. The old methods to install PHP and extensions via Homebrow don't work anymore. Andy Grunwald wrote a blogpost on how to migrate.
With Homebrew 1.5.0 the tap homebrew/php got deprecated. They migrated it to homebrew/core, but this is changing the installation process completely:
How to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 on MacOS using Homebrew original
PHP 7.2 was released almost two months ago. I decided to wait a bit until a stable version of Xdebug with PHP 7.2 compatiblity was available. And that happened yesterday with the release of Xdebug 2.6. I'm on MacOS and use brew to install stuff. Upgrading from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 is laughably easy. These…
Upgrading to PHP 7.1 is easy original
PHP 7.1 was released last week. It has many nice new features. If you're anything like me, you want to use the latest version right way. Upgrading to PHP 7.1 is not that difficult. Personally I use homebrew. The steps required to upgrade from 7.0 are laughably simple. Just issue this command in your…
