From your output, I can’t tell what went wrong (probably because ./configure does not report setting the flags).

I’ve confirmed that above method still does produce 32-bit binary in Mac OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion.

Also, I updated the step 4 above and added a screenshot of Makefile differences that should help you to adjust your Makefile manually. If that still doesn’t produce 32-bit binary, then I’m afraid, this goes beyond my knowledge of Mac OS X compiler settings (maybe there is a global forced setting somewhere deep in system etc).

I have been going in circles getting AMPPS configured on a Mac OSX 10.8 with PHP debugging. I consistently get the wrong architecture. I tried both methods of changing the architecture listed here in the blog post (thank you), but I still get a x86_64 architecture when running ‘sudo make install’.

I’ve included the terminal output below for reference to the process. Any ideas on why I can’t seem to compile in the right architecture would be appreciated.

xdebug-2.2.2 jeremiah$ ./configure --enable-xdebug --with-php-config=/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/bin/php-config CFLAGS="-arch i386 $CFLAGS" CCFLAGS="-arch i386 $CCFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 $CXXFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 $LDFLAGS"
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking for PHP prefix... /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3
checking for PHP includes... -I/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php -I/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php/main -I/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php/TSRM -I/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php/Zend -I/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php/ext -I/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/lib/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.3/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking if awk is broken... no
checking whether to enable eXtended debugging support... yes, shared
checking Check for supported PHP versions... supported (5.3.21)
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for cos in -lm... yes
checking for ld used by cc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 196608
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm output from cc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for dsymutil... dsymutil
checking for nmedit... nmedit
checking for -single_module linker flag... yes
checking for -exported_symbols_list linker flag... yes
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fno-common
checking if cc PIC flag -fno-common works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... no
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the cc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin12.3.0 dyld
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no

creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged

All ok. This is the only method that really works for me

My process: Hack on the bootcamp app to activate USB drive installation:

on the info.plist:

New line Here ! MBP61.0057.B0F
IM41.0055.B08
IM42.0071.B03
IM51.0090.B03
IM52.0090.B03
IM61.0093.B01
MP11.005C.B04
MB11.0061.B03
MBP11.0055.B08
MBP12.0061.B03
MM11.0055.B08
….

PreUSBBootSupportedModels

New Line here ! MacBookPro6,0(I know should be 6.1, but only works with 6.0)
MacBook7,1
MacBookAir3,2
MacBookPro8,3
MacPro5,1
Macmini4,1
iMac12,2

Win7OnlyModels

“And again here” MacBookPro6,0
MacBook7,1
MacBookAir3,2
MacBookPro5,5
MacPro2,1
Macmini4,1
iMac10,1

Then:

1. On bootcamp assist activate all option, this should put the ISO image on a USB drive, and bootcamp drivers for windows 7 and 8, and at the end create a partition for windows, more than 50Gb at least…
2. installed rEFIT (I need that one, whiteout it I can’t see the drive on the first boot)
3. Install Virtual Box.
4. Install Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X
5. Open Terminal:

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk1 -filename bootcamp.vmdk -partitions 2
sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk1s2 sudo chown $USER bootcamp*.vmdk

Do the thing with Virtual Box, and install windows on the bootcamp partition you just created. Stop Virtual box on the first reboot of windows (On windows Close Virtual Box Delete all files on the bootcamp folder (strange but you have to do it…, you don’t have to see system files, then AppleShowAllFiles could be on False You don’t have to empty the trash (if you do it, it may crash your MAC, the one I have Crashes). Open the ISO File of Windows and move all files to BootCamp partition (the one you just cleaned of files. (I’ve made this with the files that where on a bootable flashDrive that I’ve made earlier with Windows 8 on it, I didn’t use the iso directly)

1. Restart the MAC
2. Let OSX load 1 time (to be certain that rEFIT loads)
3. Reboot again
4. You should see rEFI (if don’t, press ALT on the reboot cycle)
5. Chose EFI Windows (or something else)
6. Windows should start (if that doesn’t happen, it’s because you have choose the wrong partition, reboot again, and choose other partition, try until you find the right on. Let windows start,
7. At some stage, windows will ask you to select a partition for it to install, choose the bootcamp (the one you made earlier) and DON’T FORMAT IT
8. Click Next
9. Windows will install without any problem. It may reboot a lot of times, be sure to let windows reboot on the right partition, since you have eEFI, you don’t have to press ALT all the time.
10. Don’t bother with the repairing disk, it is normal on windows 8, and if I can remember on Windows 7 too…
11. Configure windows has you like.
12. Install Bootcamp drivers.
13. Reboot
14. Enter on Mac Partition
15. Login
16. Go to your Root folder and rename folder EFI, to EFI_old (you may need it again)
17. Reboot
18. Press ALT
19. Windows disk partition will show on apple boot screen Select Windows.
20. Start using Windows 8 (Don’t use it to much, because that apple has a worm on it Done

Just want to emphasize … as mentioned in comments above make sure your architecture is i386

lipo -info /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/php-5.3.1/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/xdebug.so

So the steps in short (tl;dr):
1. Install Win7 in any way (Bootcamp assistant or copy over cloned image)
2. When during the first bootups the blinking cursor occurs, reboot your machine into OS X.
3. Install/start virtualization software and import your Bootcamp partition
4. Start Bootcamp in Virtual Machine
5. Install EasyBCD on Virtual Bootcamp
6. Click “Re-Create/Repair boot files”
7. Close EasyBCD, power down virtual Bootcamp
8. Reboot your physical machine into Windows (Option-key at startup)
9. Voilà, blinking cursor gone.

Thanks to the Author of this blog post and to mobilemacs podcast for mentioning it!