Using PHP 8.2 on TravisCI

Posted on by Christopher Davis

Ran into this recently, and it seems that TravisCI has PHP 8.2 support but only on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa and it’s missing a library. Hints on this forum post.

The gist is that dist: focal has to be set as well as an extra package installed form apt. Without the apt package, an error occurs:

php: error while loading shared libraries: libonig.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Here’s the same config, this could go at the top level of the file.

language: php

php: "8.2"

dist: focal

addons:
  apt:
    packages:
      - libonig5

Or nested under jobs.include:

jobs:
  include:
    - stage: test
      language: php
      php: "8.2"
      dist: focal
      addons:
        apt:
          packages:
            - libonig5