Using sudo or as root user:

As outlined in the 11.04 instructions
sudo apt-get install git-core cmake g++ libboost-dev libmysqlclient-dev libxml2-dev libmcrypt-dev libicu-dev openssl build-essential binutils-dev libcap-dev libgd2-xpm-dev zlib1g-dev libtbb-dev libonig-dev libpcre3-dev autoconf libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-dev wget memcached libreadline-dev libncurses-dev libmemcached-dev libicu-dev libbz2-dev libc-client2007e-dev php5-mcrypt php5-imagick libgoogle-perftools-dev

Required on 11.10
sudo apt-get install libcloog-ppl0

mkdir dev
cd dev
git clone git://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php.git
cd hiphop-php
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`/bin/pwd`/../
export HPHP_HOME=`/bin/pwd`
export HPHP_LIB=`/bin/pwd`/bin
cd ..

wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.14b-stable
cp ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libevent-1.4.14.fb-changes.diff .
patch -p1 < libevent-1.4.14.fb-changes.diff
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Make sure that your system time is correct, otherwise ./configure will fail.

wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.21.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf curl-7.21.2.tar.gz
cd curl-7.21.2
cp ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libcurl.fb-changes.diff .
patch -p1 < libcurl.fb-changes.diff
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH

As per: https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/26b487a5d6ed9da5bc8e4a134a88d3125884b852

• Edit lib/ssluse.c

As per: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/issues/319#issuecomment-1445537

• Edit runtime/ext/extension.cpp

make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget http://launchpad.net/libmemcached/1.0/0.49/+download/libmemcached-0.49.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libmemcached-0.49.tar.gz
cd libmemcached-0.49
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
sudo make install
cd ..

cd hiphop-php
git submodule init
git submodule update
cmake .
make

hphp binary can be found in src/hphp folder and is called hphp

If any errors occur, it may be required to remove the CMakeCache.txt directory in the checkout.

If your failure was on the make command, try to correct the error and run make again, it should restart from the point it stops. If don’t, try to remove as explained above.