How to install php-devel in CentOS/RHEL 7 (x86_64)

Files needed for building PHP extensions

License: PHP and Zend and BSD and MIT and ASL 1.0 and NCSA Vendor: GetPageSpeed LLC http://www.php.net/

Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install php-devel

Description

The php-devel package contains the files needed for building PHP extensions. If you need to compile your own PHP extensions, you will need to install this package.

Compatibility

This package is compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

RPMs

Package	Size	Built	Changes
php-devel-7.4.33-38.el7.x86_64	768 KiB	2026-10-24	Danila Vershinin - add RuntimeDirectory=php-fpm to the base-shape unit (RHEL parity): · systemd recreates /run/php-fpm on every service start
php-devel-7.4.33-37.el7.x86_64	768 KiB	2026-10-24	Danila Vershinin - ship tmpfiles.d/php-fpm.conf in the base shape: recreate /run/php-fpm at · boot, without it php-fpm fails to start after a reboot
php-devel-7.4.33-36.el7.x86_64	767 KiB	2026-10-24	Danila Vershinin - add gps_license license-presence extension, statically compiled into every · SAPI (ADR-002): phpinfo attribution section, cron.daily verdict heartbeat, · dormant guarded HTML footer tier (hard clamps to footer, fail-open to soft)
php-devel-7.4.33-35.el7.x86_64	767 KiB	2026-10-23	Danila Vershinin - enable the oci8 / pdo_oci build (new oci8 subpackage), linked against · Oracle Instant Client 21.13 exactly like Remi's EL7 build (soname · libclntsh.so.21.1; the client is fetched at build time only and never · shipped). Unblocks the Remi to GetPageSpeed upgrade on hosts that have · Remi's oci8 package installed (its exact-NVR pdo dependency).
php-devel-7.4.33-34.el7.x86_64	767 KiB	2026-10-23	Danila Vershinin - matrix monorepo CVE-batch rehearsal: no-op source marker patch; first · build published from the consolidated php-rpm repo (no functional change)
php-devel-7.4.33-33.el7.x86_64	766 KiB	2026-10-22	Danila Vershinin - GetPageSpeed branding: Vendor and Packager tags, php -v prints · "Built by GetPageSpeed LLC" (phpinfo Build Provider already set) · - php-common requires getpagespeed-extras-release · - No upstream change: Remi has no fixes newer than the patch set already · carried