Re: PHP C++ extension on Windows

From: Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:21:11 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP C++ extension on Windows
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On 5/9/2014 3:06 AM, O'Neil Delpratt wrote:


On 9 May 2014, at 10:26, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:


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


The Wiki link above does have implied instructions for building extensions in it already (step 14):

configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-[yourextension]

Or --with-[yourextension] depending on your needs.  But it isn't exactly obvious.  "$remains" doesn't mean anything to me.  But the above is sufficient to prepare to build a minimal PHP with support for your new extension.

PHP is very *NIX-centric, so I've found that writing an extension first on a Linux host (e.g. Ubuntu) and then porting it to Windows is a lot easier than the reverse.

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