Php On Windows Internals

PHP internals on Windows
easier than ever
Pierre Joye
vortrag@mayflower
2009/10/22

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Why Windows?

Introduction
How did we get here?

Motivations
Why it is worth doing

Support
Windows Internals list
http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
IRC Freenode
#php-dev-win
http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows

Starting Out
What do you need to get started

Prerequisites

Supported Platforms

Compilers

Platform SDK

Versions used by php.net
Works but not used in php.net releases
Works and used in php.net releases
No support

All youneedis a console
Setup a default debugging environment for 32bit
setenv /x86 /xp /debug (yellow)
setenv /x86 /xp /release (green)

Building PHP
A custom build in 10 minutes

Setup your tree

Common tree contents

Get the sources
SVNhttp://www.php.net/svn.php
Snapshotshttp://windows.php.net/snapshots/
Releaseshttp://windows.php.net/releases/

Generate the configuration scripts
Add a custom extension directory (pecl, your own extensions, etc.)
Buildconf --add-modules-dir=c:path opecl

Configure your build

Compiling

Audience Participation
Can you build it?

Typical Structure of a development package

Test FCGI in the console
set REDIRECT_STATUS=1
set QUERY_STRING=
set PATH_TRANSLATED=C:Inetpubwwwrootinf.php
set SCRIPT_FILENAME=C:Inetpubwwwrootinf.php
set REQUEST_METHOD=GET
set CONTENT_TYPE=
set CONTENT_LENGTH=

Want to add a feature?

My code has no bug

Breakpoints, the easy way

The future
What‘s next?

Questions?
Answers.

Resources