Install PHP Xdebug on M1 Macbook Pro

Installing Xdebug on M1 MacBook Pro can be very tricky due to the CPU architecture changed.

This post will show how I install it on my machine:

1. Make sure you install ur PHP through brew. For me, I have PHP v7.4.15 and perl v5.30.2 installed
2. Install Xdebug with perl:
   arch -arm64 sudo pecl uninstall xdebug
3. Locate the Xdebug path in your system. For me, it’s installed on /opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/7.4.15_1/pecl/20190902/xdebug.so
4. Make sure xdebug.so is loaded correctly in php.ini. You can check the following block.

zend_extension="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/7.4.15_1/pecl/20190902/xdebug.so"
xdebug.mode=debug
xdebug.client_host=localhost
xdebug.client_port=9000

DONE~
You may start using Xdebug to debug ur PHP application. =)