Re: Surveying interest regarding CMake

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, 10:23 PM Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > Hi > > Den fre. 17. dec. 2021 kl. 01.09 skrev Horváth V. < > friendlyanon_@hotmail.com>: > > Yes, gradually phasing the current build system out is the most > > pragmatic choice, although it will incur some extra maintenance cost for > > the time it's still in use, but it's better to do something sooner than > > later. This will also allow php-src to drop the Windows SDK altogether > > that was recently moved to the GH org, because Microsoft stopped > > maintenance. > > I feel it is important to clarify something here. The Windows SDK is > still supported by Microsoft. The Binary SDK for PHP by Microsoft > which is the SDK that manages dependencies and provides cross MSVC > environment build scripts is no longer supported. > > You can still build PHP on Windows without the Binary SDK but you will > have to manage the build depedencies in all their flavors manually > without this Binary SDK for PHP. > We may switch to vcpkg distributions, which supports cmake out of the box as well, or the current autoconf php js port works too. best, >