Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: I'd like to work on amfext

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:35:02 +0100, j adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for your response, Johannes!
>
> I'm in touch with Emanuele Ruffaldi, the current maintainer, and he's  
> been
> encouraging. He recommended a setup involving Visual Studio which I'm a  
> bit
> skeptical about:
> http://blog.slickedit.com/2007/09/creating-a-php-5-extension-with-visual-c-2005/
>

Despite what that blog post says, I'd recommend you do indeed build PHP  
 from source and just add your extension to the ext/ directory of the  
distribution.

This wiki page will guide through the process:
http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild

When you run buildconf, do instead

buildconf --add-project-files

This will create dsp files that you can then open in Visual Studio (I've  
only hit a small bug, I had to add ".." or "..\.." -- can't recall which  
-- to the include path of the extensions projects). All the shared  
extensions that you build will end up in a solution, one project per  
extension.

This has several advantages: you get debug symbols for PHP itself without  
the shortcomings of the debug symbols for the release versions, and you  
also get a solution called "php5ts" with which you can easily explore the  
Zend API through Intellisense.

There's also #php-dev-win @ freenode

-- 
Gustavo Lopes