Re: Package php binaries + php script into one singleexecutable file

I actually wrote that. I never imagined someone would actually find that useful! If you don't mind having a few external dlls, you can use dl (ick!) to load the extensions. I gave up supporting that because compiling the custom lightweight stubs took more work than I cared for. I am considering reviving the project and this time not writing in PHP (PHP should really not be used for GUIs IMO). If you can wait a bit. I can setup my code (Visual C++ projects mostly) on GitHub so you can clone and compile whatever stubs you want. If you cannot wait, or want to tinker, here is a thread I wrote that talks about making a static/stub exe: http://winbinder.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1178 Good luck! Alec Gorge On 3/15/2011 7:40 PM, Olivier Hoareau wrote:

Found one interesting tool named PHPACK : http://winbinder.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1148 (windows only) <http://winbinder.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1148>Tool is no more supported (ended mid-2010), but seems to be working with PHP 5.3. What it does : package php5ts.dll + custom php scripts into one .exe (windows only). Tested with my phar file generated a 3Mb exe file (not that big). But limited support for extension (few statically linked extension). I have not yet tested the exe file on a blank box (i.e. where php not already installed). Seems to be an interesting solution for my windows users. Other ideas ? oha 2011/3/15 Olivier Hoareau<olivier@phppro.fr>

Hi Tomas ! Thanks for your proposals.

Create .deb package and make it dependent on PHP for Debian/Ubuntu. Debian has docs and tools that allow to do that. PHP is in standard Debian/Ubuntu software repository.

This solution does not provide me one of the goal I need to reach : that my users be able to use the tool even if they already have PHP installed on their system but with a version not compatible with the tool. Let me explain why : the goal of the tool is to provide command line actions for team (dev team) members, such as the ones (but not only) provided by tools like zf / sf / maven (but not sticked to a specific framework and working with all frameworks), so the targeted users are already using PHP but with specific version of PHP (depending on the need for the application they are currently developing). I would like to be able to provide all the features my tool provide to those teams BUT without the need for these team to "upgrade" the version of PHP they are using on their desktop (mostly PHP 5.2)

Distribute .phar package alone for users who already have PHP. List PHP extensions your package depends on.

This solution is already in use, but not perfect, for the problem I described above, at least, because a small percentage of my targetted users (at this moment) are using PHP 5.3+

Create automated installer for Windows which downloads PHP from the network. See microsoft web platform installer for more ideas.

This is a possible solution if installing PHP in a custom directory without system-wide installation and if 2 version of PHP can coexist on the same filesystem without conflicts on extensions/php.ini/system variables, do you have links ? (I will google it) IMHO your package license is not compatible with PHP license. You can't

distribute PHP with BSD license.

OK, I was not aware of this limitation. It is not a problem to modify the license of the tool to one that is compatible with PHP license, my purpose is to share something, not to sell it. Do you (are others) have advice on this specific points ? Thanks ! Olivier H.

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