Phpredis: PHP5.6: fatal error: ext/standard/php_smart_string.h: No such file or directory

[lsgd]

I'm trying to install phpredis 3.0.0 on my Debian Wheezy running PHP 5.6

I tried it with ./configure and dpkg-buildpackage, but it fails with the following error message:

In file included from /var/local_installs/phpredis-3.0.0/redis.c:27:0:
/var/local_installs/phpredis-3.0.0/common.h:3:43: fatal error: ext/standard/php_smart_string.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [redis.lo] Error 1

In the issue #682 (https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/issues/682#issuecomment-163743879) @michael-grunder says that the filename for this file has to be php_smart_str.h for PHP5.

Do I need to set a special flag to be able to compile for PHP5? Is version 3 only for PHP7?
Thank you.

[michael-grunder]

Hey,

3.0.0 is only for php7, but 2.2.8 and 3.0.0 have the same functionality, and are only different in how the internals interface with php. I'm planning on merging the php7 and develop branches in the next version so there is only one for both.

Cheers
Mike