On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, O'Neil Delpratt <oneil@saxonica.com> wrote:
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> On 9 May 2014, at 10:26, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> hi,
>>
>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, O'Neil Delpratt <oneil@saxonica.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a better way to build a PHP C++ extension for PHP 5.5 than in Visual studio? I
>>> know it can be done in the PHP build process for windows as described in the book “Extending and
>>> Embedding PHP” by Sara Golemon which I did try but failed with linking errors, maybe because of
>>> the config.w32 file not being setup properly. Under linux I have no issues..
>>
>> Actually the better and recommended way is not to use VS but for debugging.
>>
>> See https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild
>
>
> How about building your own extension? There seems to be a lack of information about doing that
> on windows
same, copy it to the ../pecl/ directory, run buildconf etc.
You can use phpize too if your exts do not have dependencies against
other extension.
The process is also described in the wiki
Cheers,
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Pierre
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