Re: php extensions on windows

I've been working on this sort of thing for the past few weeks as I've been trying to make sure all of the PHP extensions I've written work on UNIX systems as well as Windows systems. I think you can compile using gcc and cygwin, but I believe the recommended way is with Visual C++ 6, as the official binaries are done with VC++. (I think, I don't use PHP in Windows except to test portability.) Anyways, here's what I do as far as settings. This is for a thread-safe release extension. I'm assuming you have a bit of experience working with VC++ and the PHP source, and that you're able to compile PHP in the first place. 0. Start a new project in VC++ and add your extension's files. 1. In the Configurations dialog, add two configurations: Release_TS and Debug_TS. Release_TS should copy the settings from Release and Debug_TS should obviously copy from Debug. You can Remove Release and Debug and close the dialog. The next set of steps is for the Release_TS configuration. If you can figure that out, you should be able to get Debug_TS working fine. 2. Open up Project->Settings. On the C/C++ tab, General Category, added the following preprocessor definitions: ZEND_DEBUG=0, COMPILE_DL_YOUR_EXTENSION_NAME, ZTS=1, ZEND_WIN32, PHP_WIN32. YOUR_EXTENSION_NAME is the name you'll find in the sources generated by ext_skel. 3. In the Code Generation Category, change Use run-time Library to "Multithreaded DLL". 4. In the Preprocessor Category, add the following "Additional include directories": ..\.., ..\..\main, ..\..\Zend, ..\..\TSRM, ..\..\bindlib_w32. 5. On the Link tab in the General Category, change the Output file name to ..\..\Release_TS/php_yourextension.dll. 6. On that same tab, same category, add php4ts.lib to Object/library modules. 7. In the Input Category, add the following to Additional library path: ..\..\Release_TS. That should be it. Close dialog and set the active configuration to Release_TS and (hopefully) build the DLL. If you're using other libraries and such, make sure you compile them using the multithreaded DLL runtime library like you did with your extension. I found that out the hard way trying to get my cryptopp extension working on Windows. Check out some of the VC++ project files included with the PHP source when you're stuck and try to replicate the settings they use in your own project. It takes a while to get used to building extensions with VC++ 'cause that sort of thing is so poorly documented in the Windows world, but once you get it once you should be fine. J Igal Raizman wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone point me in the directions of a tutorial or perhaps some info > on making PHP extensions on a Windows system ? > > not on how to code them, but rather on how to compile them on a windows > system. > > Thanks,