Re: [PHP-DEV] Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

Jan Ehrhardt in php.internals (Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:52:06 +0200):
>? Good Guy ? in php.windows (Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:39:54 +0100):
>>On 10/07/2020 17:09, Trevor Holyoak via php-windows wrote:
>>> What does this mean? PHP 8 and forward will not be available for 
>>> Windows? Or is just won't be supported by Microsoft?
>>
>>It's means that Microsoft won't be spending time to create Windows 
>>binaries;  Jan Ehrhardt <[email protected]> is developing for private 
>>consumption so perhaps he should volunteer to upload them on the 
>>official website.  Alternatively, Microsoft could create a document for 
>>users to compile their own binaries using Visual Studio.  Personally, I 
>>would like to compile my own binaries but when I once tried it, it 
>>didn't work correctly because I didn't have all the extensions.  I just 
>>gave up but I would like to try again as Microsoft has given us enough 
>>time to prepare for the future.
>
>For many of the libs for extensions I am also dependent on
>https://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps/
>Some of them I am also building them my self, using (sometimes patched)
>versions of the repo's on https://github.com/winlibs

And do not forget that the Windows build environment since PHP 7.2 is
also maintained by Microsoft:
https://github.com/microsoft/php-sdk-binary-tools

If they also stop supporting the build environment they will be really
shooting themselves in the foot.
-- 
Jan