PHP and MySQL Prob....

I've installed Apache 1.3.12 With PHP 3 built in. After i've installed MySQL 3.22.32 an this way the PHP3 insn't compile with MySQL (I have Freebsd and I install those thing as binaries). What I want to kown is if there's a way to link PHP3 to MySQL without compling PHP3 (like ./configure --with-mysql=/...) Some person told me to edit the php3.ini but I don't know what to do here ?

honestly, you will get the best performance just recompiling and getting it all set up the right way. trying to cheat around it may or may not work, but ive compiled all of the stuff on my servers and it all works fine for me so far....