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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:38:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Which IDE do you recommend for php-src development?
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024, at 7:06 PM, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote:
> +1 for VSCode, I use it practically everywhere these days,
> HTML/Javascript/TypeScript/PHP/C/C++/Python/Lua, all on VSCode.
>
> On Mon, 16 Sept 2024 at 13:07, Barel <barel.barelon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Sept 2024 at 23:44, Barel <barel.barelon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to use it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles. After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something else.
>>>
>>> So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand that people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if there was something that most php internals developers used. One important feature would be to easily work with the project running on a docker container
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Carlos
>>
>>
>> Answering myself in case someone finds this useful in the future.
>>
>> Several people recommended VSCode so decided to give it a try. I found this guide which describes very well what you need to do to get VSCode working for a php-src project hosted in a docker container. Works brilliantly, I am able to work with the code in the container using all VSCode features, including debugging with GDB. Nice!
>>
>> https://bogomolov.tech/php-extension-development/


Please please someone capture the details of this thread somewhere on the wiki or php.net, or maybe even in the php-src repo itself.  We really need to have good "how to get from git clone to a working C debugger" instructions.

--Larry Garfield