New PHP SDK for Windows

Hi Anatol!

I'm working on the new Windows PHP SDK. So far, some usable alpha state is
reached. It is compatible with PHP-7.0 and the current SDK and contains
additional new features. The essential changes in the new SDK are

• starter scripts included, making the environment setup easier
• updated tools, including bison 3.0.2
• more tools including sed, awk and others based on MSYS2
• new tool for dependency update automation

The current state is reachable under

https://github.com/OSTC/php-sdk-binary-tools/tree/new_binary_tools

I would like to call everyone interested to please check and provide
feedback and PRs. Other useful tools can be invented on the base of the new
SDK. Production usage is not yet recommended, but the more feedback is there

• the closer it'll be. The plan is to replace the current PHP SDK with the
  new one in foreseable future for PHP 7 builds, maybe also to backport for
  the 5.x tree. This also correlates with the upcoming AppVeyor integration,
  and both tasks in general are directed to improve the QA and experience
  situation when building PHP on Windows.

Please check more on the github README page. If some tool is missing or is
worth it to be implemented, please create a ticket. A new step-by-step-build
wiki page will also need to be created, once the new SDK was considered
stable. I would also ask to migrate the linked repository to git.php.net,
meanwhile the PR can be accepted on the OSTC repository page.

I still hadn't had the time to have a closer look at the new SDK, but
finally managed to at least quickly check it out – it looks very
promising. Thanks for the good work again, Anatol!

--
Christoph M. Becker

Hi,

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From: Anatol Belski [mailto:anatol.php@belski.net]
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Subject: [PHP-WIN] New PHP SDK for Windows

Hi,

I'm working on the new Windows PHP SDK. So far, some usable alpha state is
reached. It is compatible with PHP-7.0 and the current SDK and contains
additional new features. The essential changes in the new SDK are

• starter scripts included, making the environment setup easier
• updated tools, including bison 3.0.2
• more tools including sed, awk and others based on MSYS2
• new tool for dependency update automation

The current state is reachable under

https://github.com/OSTC/php-sdk-binary-tools/tree/new_binary_tools

I would like to call everyone interested to please check and provide
feedback
and PRs. Other useful tools can be invented on the base of the new SDK.
Production usage is not yet recommended, but the more feedback is there

• the closer it'll be. The plan is to replace the current PHP SDK with the
  new one
  in foreseable future for PHP 7 builds, maybe also to backport for the 5.x
  tree.
  This also correlates with the upcoming AppVeyor integration, and both
  tasks in
  general are directed to improve the QA and experience situation when
  building
  PHP on Windows.

Please check more on the github README page. If some tool is missing or is
worth it to be implemented, please create a ticket. A new
step-by-step-build wiki
page will also need to be created, once the new SDK was considered stable.
I
would also ask to migrate the linked repository to git.php.net, meanwhile
the PR
can be accepted on the OSTC repository page.

So far the point was reached, so then the current new binary tools SDK
implementation is close to stable. For about two months already, all the
AppVeyor builds use the new SDK, the current master snapshots use it as
well. Many people reported good experiences with it, some bugs were fixed
and more improvements was made. At this point, I've also started to adapt
the documentation
https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild_sdk_2 and the actual
plan for the next 2-3 weeks is

• move the further development into the master of php-sdk-binary-tools
• if someone from systems has time, still please add this repo to
  git.php.net
• do a stable release of the binary tools 2.0.0
• make PHP 7.2 to require the new binary tools and solve
  https://github.com/OSTC/php-sdk-binary-tools/issues/1

I'd appreciate any help with the wiki doc page. Some quite exhaustive
information is also available on the SDK's own readme page in the git repo,
which might make less sense to be duplicated on the wiki. Still, I could
miss something, so any review is useful. Any further tests on the SDK itself
were ofc welcome, too.

Regards

Anatol