Header files for the Windows packages

Hi,

I am using PHP on Windows (IIS), and currently creating a PHP extension via 
SWIG <http://www.swig.org/>. In order to do that, i need the header files 
that were used when my PHP package got produced. I've looked all over the 
PHP site but i can only find binary or source downloads, not header / 
library packages.

On Linux, it's easy: there is a package called "php-dev" or "php-devel" 
which contains those header files; for example on 
<http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/updates/13/x86_64/php-devel-5.3.3-1.fc13.x86_64.html> 
(scroll to the bottom to see the file list).

But for Windows, i can't find any such package. There is actually a library 
file being distributed, under dev/php5.lib. However i can't find any header 
(.h) file that i could use in order to link with that library!

Therefore, my only solution has been to download the source code and run a 
full compilation using the config flags visible in a phpinfo. There are some 
generated header files (like acconfig.h) so i can't just download the code 
and grab all the .h files - i have to fully compile it. At that point, of 
course, i also get another php5.lib library and new binary files, which 
render the official binary distro that i downloaded from 
<http://windows.php.net/> useless.

When i'm done compiling, i run the following command to keep only header 
files:
    find . -not -name '*.h' -delete

And there we go, i have my own php-devel package for Windows! This is fine 
for me, but i can't ask the people who are going to compile my program to 
fully compile PHP just to get these files. I could distribute them, but what 
if my files differ from the binary distro that they are using? At that 
point, i would also have to distribute my own binary files, which is getting 
way too obnoxious and hard to maintain.

So here is my request: when generating a Windows distro, could you pack all 
header files using a command similar to the one above and make them 
available, either as a separate link, or directly under the "dev" directory? 
That dir already contains a library so it would make sense to put the 
headers that have to be used to compile against that library in the same 
place.

Thanks,
Zouzou 


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