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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:13:21 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dead C Scrolls - Missing Code for Writing New Extensionswithout recompiling PHP
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox")

Ouf, Hartmut, does it make 'the new win32 build system' config files too?

/me hasn't tried, just wants to know...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <hartmut@php.net>
To: "Andrew Mather" <an.dromeda@btconnect.com>
Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dead C Scrolls - Missing Code for Writing New 
Extensionswithout recompiling PHP


> Andrew Mather wrote:
>> i)    a walkthrough of the exact steps + sample code to write an 
>> extension without
>>        requiring re-compilation of Php and without access to Php source 
>> code
>
> maybe its time for a shameless plug one more time:
>
>   http://pear.php.net/package/CodeGen_PECL/docs
>
> this approach will shield you from autoconf/make details as
> much as possible, it will also generate windows VS 6.0 .dsp
> project files, too
>
>> ii)   as above but with access to Php source code
>
> its not mentioned in the above docs, but compiling the generated
> extension code staticly into PHP just requires these simple steps:
>
>  - place the generated code directory into PHPs ext/ directory
>  - run buildconf (in the top level src directory)
>  - if you've already built php from this source tree before do
>
>     config.nice ...any-options-specific-to-your-extension
>
>    else extract the configure string for the current php installation
>    from "php -i" output, re-use this configure line and add your
>    extensions options to it
>  - make
>  - optional: make test
>  - make install (may require sudo)
>
>
>> iii)  as above (either i or ii) but with instructions to allow the 
>> project to be initiated
>>       and compiled within the KDE development environment
>
> i don't know / use Kdevelop, but i'm pretty sure that it allows
> to integrate standard unix projects based on configure/make ...
>
>> Resulting object (presumably .so) to be accessible in a distribution 
>> release of Apache/Php
>> with only minor modification of a client's Apache/Php config settings.
>
> using CodeGen_PECL you'll get a full self contained extension
> project, including a package.xml file suitable for automatic
> installation using the pear installer
>
>
> -- 
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