Re: Surveying interest regarding CMake

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 8:02 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > On 29.12.2021 at 13:38, Horváth V. wrote: > > > Just a quick update on this in between the holidays. > > > > There are indeed quite a few of the libraries provided in the php-src's > > Windows SDK that are missing from Conan Center Index, which is the > > default remote when fetching dependencies using Conan. > > > > I have submitted a recipe for WinEditLine and it is pending review by > > the Conan team. I am basically done with OpenLDAP's recipe as well, but > > it needs Cyrus SASL as a dependency, which does not build on Windows > > using the CCI recipe yet. > > > > Ironically, many of PHP's dependencies use Autotools as their build > > tool, which makes it practically impossible to build them cross > > platform, so I have to rewrite things in terms of CMake :) > > Right! This is why I suggested to postpone Windows support for now. :) > > The core dependencies for Windows builds are currently hosted at > <https://github.com/winlibs>; some can be built using > <https://github.com/winlibs/winlib-builder>. Of course, > it would > preferable to be able to build all the libs with CMake, instead of the > current mix of self made or provided Makefiles, Visual Studio solutions, > and what not. > I would rather separate external libs challenges from the php cmake move. CMake macros allow all kind of detection anyway, pkgconfig or custom. Conan looks good while I never tried it. There are other, *nix only, or win and unix, ie vcpkg which has all php deps afair. Also cmake is for php, I would prefer to move away from our custom builds scripts for external libs on windows, very hard to maintain and not scalable. best,