For quite some time we run the unit tests for our libs and tools against PHP and HHVM, at least that is what I thought up to now. As it turns out I missed a minor detail. In our Jenkins job we invoke the Phing task like this:
First of all I assume you already got HHVM running with nginx. If this is not the case feel free to follow these steps to get everything up and running. To install Silex we will use Composer, so let's install all the needed requirements and Composer itself. As root user run the following commands:
I recently published a blog post on how to set-up HHVM in a virtual machine. Since the latest HHVM release a few things changed within HHVM and you won't be able to install HHVM that way. This blog post will give you some insights on how to install the current version of HHVM.
After trying to get a few application to run on hhvm I came across the following error:
UPDATE (04/2014): Since Facebook decided to remove the webserver functionality from the "official" binaries this howto will not work anymore! Read here how to set things up with the current version of hhvm.