note 31606 added to zend.creating

Thank you very much for the comments above! Here is a distillation of how to compile your module as a dynamic library, placing it in your web server and loading it in your test .php file being served (PHP 4.3.1). *** Compiling a module as a .so $ cd ext/mystuff $ cc -fpic -DCOMPILE_DL_MYSTUFF=1 -I/usr/local/include -I../../TSRM -I../.. -I../../main -I../../Zend -I../../ext/bcmath/libbcmath/src -c -o mystuff.o mystuff.c $ cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -rdynamic -o mystuff.so mystuff.o *** Move it to the web server (doc root is /www) $ cp mystuff.so /www/. $ chmod 644 /www/mystuff.so *** load the module in the .php file for testing purposes <? dl('/mystuff.so'); /* your php code here */ ?> The other thing that threw me off my tracks is that when dealing with strings you can allocate memory with emalloc and return the result with the RETURN_STRING macro (duplicate set to 0) and presumably PHP will take care of the efree -- or else I got it wrong and have plenty of leaks ;-) -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.creating.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+31606 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+31606 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+31606