Installing PHP compiler in Ubuntu and getting errors

[anshul]

I have downloaded phc-0.3~ and trying to install it in Ubuntu 14.10.

Running make (make -i, as well) is giving so many errors, is it possible to install a PHP compiler practically?

Thanks,

[eelixduppy]

Why are you trying to compile it from source? There are packages that facilitate this for popular linux distributions (e.g. apt-get). I'd look there first.

[anshul]

I need to convert a long PHP program to Python.
Else I've to get a lot fluent in Python to write same PHP thing in it.

[Habtom]

I think what eelix meant was how about installing php from linux distros, something like: apt-get install php5

[mack]

In Ubuntu you have the software centre. You can search for php and have it install it for you. It's quick easy and configures properly for your system.

Mack.

[anshul]

phc means a compiler, quite difficult to install it, it is not PHP.

Better way is to learn Python, if there is no easy free tool to convert PHP code to Python.