Re: New PHP SDK for Windows

Hi Anatol! On 31.10.2016 at 18:01, Anatol Belski wrote: > I'm working on the new Windows PHP SDK. So far, some usable alpha state is > reached. It is compatible with PHP-7.0 and the current SDK and contains > additional new features. The essential changes in the new SDK are > > - starter scripts included, making the environment setup easier > - updated tools, including bison 3.0.2 > - more tools including sed, awk and others based on MSYS2 > - new tool for dependency update automation > > The current state is reachable under > > > https://github.com/OSTC/php-sdk-binary-tools/tree/new_binary_tools > > I would like to call everyone interested to please check and provide > feedback and PRs. Other useful tools can be invented on the base of the new > SDK. Production usage is not yet recommended, but the more feedback is there > - the closer it'll be. The plan is to replace the current PHP SDK with the > new one in foreseable future for PHP 7 builds, maybe also to backport for > the 5.x tree. This also correlates with the upcoming AppVeyor integration, > and both tasks in general are directed to improve the QA and experience > situation when building PHP on Windows. > > Please check more on the github README page. If some tool is missing or is > worth it to be implemented, please create a ticket. A new step-by-step-build > wiki page will also need to be created, once the new SDK was considered > stable. I would also ask to migrate the linked repository to git.php.net, > meanwhile the PR can be accepted on the OSTC repository page. I still hadn't had the time to have a closer look at the new SDK, but finally managed to at least quickly check it out – it looks very promising. Thanks for the good work again, Anatol! -- Christoph M. Becker