Re: PHP7 releases vs Windows Sources?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > > On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 02:02 +0200, Christoph Becker wrote: > >> Johannes Schlüter wrote: > >> > >>> It is not including the generated parsers. This means the user might > use > >>> a different version, which might cause a bug which might be hard to > >>> debug as usage of provided files is assumed. > >> > >> Fair enough. However, the Windows sources neither contain the generated > >> parser files, because they would break linking on Windows, see > >> <http://news.php.net/php.internals/86685>. > > > > This is a bug and has to be addressed. > > I have investigated further. The issue is commit b8e2629[1]. I'm > certain that Sara had good reasons to mark zendparse() as ZEND_API. > However, that breaks building with the generated zend_language_parser > files with MSVC, if they have been generated with a somewhat recent > bison (2.4.1 still works, 2.7.12 fails), because newer versions declare > zendparse() again in .c and .h – without ZEND_API. > > It seems the only possibility to fix this mismatch would be to use a > custom skeleton, but the /usr/share/bison/README states: > > | These skeletons are the only ones supported by the Bison team. > | Because the interface between skeletons and the bison program is not > | finished, *we are not bound to it*. In particular, Bison is not > | mature enough for us to consider that "foreign skeletons" are > | supported. > > So what to do? > > [1] > < > > https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/b8e262901e56a4d9a6664d348c9878246579239e > > > We need some ZEND_API way to invoke the parser from extensions. If it's inconvenient to have on zendparse() directly because bison, I'd suggest dropping it there and creating a ZEND_API wrapping function. Nikita