Re: [PHP-WIN] compiling rdkafka on Windows

Hi!

A "bit" late, but maybe this is still helpful to you or others.

On 07.03.2024 at 10:00, Jan Vávra wrote:

>  I would like to compile a rdkafka extension on Windows for php 8.2
>
> I was going through steps on
> https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild

This is for old PHP versions.  You should (have) read:
<https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild_sdk_2>

> Building PECL extensions
>
> I have dirs
> c:\php-sdk\phpdev\vs16\x64\php-8.2.4
> c:\php-sdk\phpdev\vs16\x64\pecl\rdkafka\rdkafka-6.0.3
>
> And I failed with
> c:\php-sdk\phpdev\vs16\x64\php-8.2.4>configure --with-rdkafka
>
> WARNING
> The following arguments is invalid, and therefore ignored:
> configure --with-rdkafka

I haven't done this way of building PECL extensions for a long time, but
if my memory is correct, rdkafka\rdkafka-6.0.3 won't work.  Put all the
files of the folder into rdkafka directly.  Then run `buildconf`, and
the configure above should work.

However, I'd recommend building PECL extensions with `phpize`, see
<https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild_sdk_2#building_pecl_extensions_with_phpize>.
 This doesn't require to build the PHP core again.

> Or can I ask somebody to compile it by himself ?

PECL DLLs for rdkafka and simple_kafka_client (and many other packages)
are available again from pecl.php.net.

Cheers,
Christoph