Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Windows PECL deps build script

Hi!

A "bit" late, but still may be of interest for some.

On 19.03.2024 at 17:10, JB wrote:

> I work to write automatic builds for PHP Extension for Windows with
> GitHubAction.
>
> Sometimes, I download the dependencies located here
> https://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/deps/ to build the DLL.

You better not rely on that location anymore since they might no longer
be synced.  Instead use <https://downloads.php.net/~windows/pecl/deps/>
for now.

> But, I don't know the source code origin and the build batch to find a
> newer library version.
>
> Where can I find the build instructions for each library with the source
> code location?

At least the sources of the PHP dependencies can be found on
<https://github.com/winlibs>.  For building the dependencies,
<https://github.com/winlibs/winlib-builder> is used.  A couple of PECL
dependencies are fetched directly from their own repos, and are patched
on the fly, if needed.

This is all bare-bones, but apparently we still cannot use another
package manager.  When I last looked into vcpkg, it was not really
suitable.  Quite a while ago someone proposed to use Conan, but adding
missing libraries turned out to be difficult.  Not sure how that ended up.

Cheers,
Christoph