Re: Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

Jan Ehrhardt in php.internals (Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:52:06 +0200): >? Good Guy ? in php.windows (Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:39:54 +0100): >>On 10/07/2020 17:09, Trevor Holyoak via php-windows wrote: >>> What does this mean? PHP 8 and forward will not be available for >>> Windows? Or is just won't be supported by Microsoft? >> >>It's means that Microsoft won't be spending time to create Windows >>binaries;  Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> is developing for private >>consumption so perhaps he should volunteer to upload them on the >>official website.  Alternatively, Microsoft could create a document for >>users to compile their own binaries using Visual Studio.  Personally, I >>would like to compile my own binaries but when I once tried it, it >>didn't work correctly because I didn't have all the extensions.  I just >>gave up but I would like to try again as Microsoft has given us enough >>time to prepare for the future. > >For many of the libs for extensions I am also dependent on >https://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps/ >Some of them I am also building them my self, using (sometimes patched) >versions of the repo's on https://github.com/winlibs And do not forget that the Windows build environment since PHP 7.2 is also maintained by Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/php-sdk-binary-tools If they also stop supporting the build environment they will be really shooting themselves in the foot. -- Jan