Re: PHP C++ extension on Windows

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, O'Neil Delpratt <oneil@saxonica.com> wrote: > > On 9 May 2014, at 10:26, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi, >> >> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, O'Neil Delpratt <oneil@saxonica.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there a better way to build a PHP C++ extension for PHP 5.5 than in Visual studio? I >>> know it can be done in the PHP build process for windows as described in the book “Extending and >>> Embedding PHP” by Sara Golemon which I did try but failed with linking errors, maybe because of >>> the config.w32 file not being setup properly. Under linux I have no issues.. >> >> Actually the better and recommended way is not to use VS but for debugging. >> >> See https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild > > > How about building your own extension? There seems to be a lack of information about doing that > on windows same, copy it to the ../pecl/ directory, run buildconf etc. You can use phpize too if your exts do not have dependencies against other extension. The process is also described in the wiki Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org