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    Building from source

    This chapter teaches how to compile PHP from sources on Windows, using Microsoft's tools. To compile PHP with cygwin, please refer to Installation on Unix systems.

    See the Wiki documentation at: » https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild

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    php at tattodecastro dot com
    17 years ago
    If you are getting the following error message:
    Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".js"
    with Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt or similar, try to add  "/e:jscript" to the command line.

    Something like:
    cscript /nologo /e:jscript win32/build/buildconf.js

    It worked for me, I hope it helps.
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    buda
    13 years ago
    Using --enable-snapshot-build when setting the configure command requires you to also set --disable-static-analyze (Win7 64Bit, VC9 Express, SDK 6.1) for otherwise you will run into a fatal compiler error "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\Include\tchar.h(1659) : fa
    tal error C1001: Interner Compilerfehler.
    (Compilerdatei "msc1ast.cpp", Zeile 1411)"
    (see also https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55779)
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    Bas van Beek
    15 years ago
    If trying to compile the code (Windows XP, SDK v6.1) and you get the following types of errors:

    c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(128) : warning C4005: 'POLLIN' : macro redefinition
            c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1495) :
    see previous definition of 'POLLIN'
    c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(129) : warning C4005: 'POLLPRI' : macro redefinition
            c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1496) :
    see previous definition of 'POLLPRI'
    c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(130) : warning C4005: 'POLLOUT' : macro redefinition
            c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1499) :
    see previous definition of 'POLLOUT'
    c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(131) : warning C4005: 'POLLERR' : macro redefinition
            c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1502) :
    see previous definition of 'POLLERR'
    c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(132) : warning C4005: 'POLLHUP' : macro redefinition
            c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1503) :
    see previous definition of 'POLLHUP'
    c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(133) : warning C4005: 'POLLNVAL' : macro redefinition
            c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1504) :
    see previous definition of 'POLLNVAL'
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN
    \cl.exe"' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.

    You can alter the Makefile and add the following switch to CFLAGS:

    /D _WIN32_WINNT
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    Anonymous
    18 years ago
    >> Compiling using Visual Studio .NET will create binaries dependent of msvcp71.dll

    Only if you compile with the wrong runtime library.
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    mail at tonywilk dot co dot uk
    10 years ago
    Building PHP on Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 installed...
    - this differs slightly from the stepbystepbuild info and it worked for me :)

    0. make a directory and unpack both of these into it:
          php-5.4.23-src.zip  (should have a win32 directory in it)
          php-sdk-binary-tools-20110915
    1. Run Visual Studio 2010 command prompt
    2. CD to your php source root directory
    3. set mc="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\mc"    - or wherever it is on your machine
    4. vcvars32
    5. set path=your_php_source_directory\bin;%PATH%
    6. buildconf
    7. configure --help
         this gets you a list of all the options, then... (e.g.)
    8. configure --disable-all --enable-cgi --with-sqlite3
    9. nmake
    10. results should be in Release_TS
           in this example, all we need is php-cgi.exe and php5ts.dll
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    zbowden at vt dot edu
    18 years ago
    When running "cscript /nologo configure.js" 5.x on Windows
    2000 or XP, if you get the following error:
    Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this
    property or method

    You need to have at least version 5.6 of WSH.
    This is necessary because configure.js will use the .Exec()
    method of the WScript.Shell.
    This evidently didn't exist until 5.6?

    You can download WSH 5.6 here:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
    FamilyID=c717d943-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa&DisplayLang=en
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    Joel Low
    14 years ago
    To build everything in the distribution, pass --enable-snapshot-build to configure.js. In addition, you may like to use "snap" as the nmake target. If you intend to build the PHP Windows Installer, WiX source files can be obtained from http://svn.php.net/repository/php/win-installer/.
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    axel at kollmorgen dot net
    17 years ago
    >>Compiling using Visual Studio .NET will create binaries dependent of msvcp71.dll
    >
    > Only if you compile with the wrong runtime library.

    if this is so easy, please tell us how you managed to *not* create dependencies on msvcp71.dll/msvcr80/... using Visual C++ .NET 2000/2003/2005. thanks!
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    michal dot kocarek at brainbox dot cz
    15 years ago
    PHP extensions can be compiled statically or shared.

    - Shared compilation creates a well-known php_*.dll file.
    - Static compilation puts the extension directly into PHP (therefore it does not need to be loaded and cannot be unloaded)

    You can switch whether to compile given extension statically or as library by adding =static or =shared to the extension in configure.js command during the compilation.

    configure --enable-http=static --with-openssl=shared
    // http extension will be included in PHP
    // openssl extension will be compiled as separate DLL
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