pecl install cassandra throws: “error: Unable to load libcassandra”

Question

pecl install cassandra

produces an error:

configure: error: Unable to load libcassandra

ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/cassandra/

Answer 1

This works for me on Debian Jessie

apt-get remove libuv0.10-dev
git clone https://github.com/libuv/libuv.git
cd libuv
git reset --hard v1.19.1
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install

git clone https://github.com/datastax/php-driver.git
cd php-driver
git submodule update --init
cd ext
./install.sh

vi /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Add extension=cassandra.so
php -i | grep cassandra