Re: Compiling CURL staticaly into PHP on Windows

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: > Pierre Joye in php.pecl.dev (Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:47:03 +0200): >>hi, >> >>On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: >>> Intriguing question by Kevin. I once made a curl.exe without any need >>> for external DLL's, not even libeay32.dll and the like. Only the >>> standard Windows dll's and the VC++ redistributables are needed. >> >>It is indeed possible to compile a standalone curl.exe (see the >>Makefile options I added to curl), but the question here is more about >>the curl extension. > > Yes, I knew it was about php_curl.dll > >>Johannes is right, the last argument of the extension function is >>about defining how php_curl will be built. I never tried to build it >>statically. > > I did that yesterday. It compiled fine. See the link that you did not > quote: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8954372/php555static.zip > There is a snapshot.txt and a phpinfo.htm in this zip with more info. > > This will not work with the deps in > http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/ > because libcurl_a.lib, libssh2_a.lib, ssleay32_a.lib and libeay32_a.lib > in those deps all are dependent on libeay32.dll and/or ssleay32.dll. > Kevin will have to compile his own libs for SSH2 and SSL if he wants > support for those protocols. With those static SSH2/SSL libs he has to > recompile Curl to get a fully static libcurl_a.lib. I would never ever suggest to compile ssl statiically. That does not prevent to compile php_curl statically btw. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org