PHP: Building from source

Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009

Building from source

This chapter teaches how to compile PHP from sources on windows, using Microsoft's tools. To compile PHP with cygwin, please refer to Installation on Unix systems.

This chapter is outdated therefore it's temporarily been removed from the manual. For now, consider the following:

Follow this guide: » here
See also: » the Windows wiki

Installation of extensions on Windows

Xitami on Microsoft Windows

Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009

add a note User Contributed Notes
Building from source

michal dot kocarek at brainbox dot cz
17-Aug-2009 04:10


PHP extensions can be compiled statically or shared.



- Shared compilation creates a well-known php_*.dll file.

- Static compilation puts the extension directly into PHP (therefore it does not need to be loaded and cannot be unloaded)



You can switch whether to compile given extension statically or as library by adding =static or =shared to the extension in configure.js command during the compilation.



configure --enable-http=static --with-openssl=shared

// http extension will be included in PHP

// openssl extension will be compiled as separate DLL

Bas van Beek
12-Mar-2009 12:50


If trying to compile the code (Windows XP, SDK v6.1) and you get the following types of errors:



c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(128) : warning C4005: 'POLLIN' : macro redefinition

        c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1495) :

see previous definition of 'POLLIN'

c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(129) : warning C4005: 'POLLPRI' : macro redefinition

        c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1496) :

see previous definition of 'POLLPRI'

c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(130) : warning C4005: 'POLLOUT' : macro redefinition

        c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1499) :

see previous definition of 'POLLOUT'

c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(131) : warning C4005: 'POLLERR' : macro redefinition

        c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1502) :

see previous definition of 'POLLERR'

c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(132) : warning C4005: 'POLLHUP' : macro redefinition

        c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1503) :

see previous definition of 'POLLHUP'

c:\phpdev\php-5.2.9\main\php_network.h(133) : warning C4005: 'POLLNVAL' : macro redefinition

        c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\include\winsock2.h(1504) :

see previous definition of 'POLLNVAL'

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN

\cl.exe"' : return code '0x2'

Stop.



You can alter the Makefile and add the following switch to CFLAGS:



/D _WIN32_WINNT

php at tattodecastro dot com
06-Dec-2007 10:14


If you are getting the following error message:

Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".js"

with Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt or similar, try to add  "/e:jscript" to the command line.



Something like:

cscript /nologo /e:jscript win32/build/buildconf.js



It worked for me, I hope it helps.

giunta dot gaetano at gmail dot com
27-Jun-2007 11:43


A detailed tutorial for building php 5 using VC++ 2005 express edition (ie. the free version) is available here: http://elizabethmariesmith.com/2006/11/15/



It can be a huge time saver if you do not have a complete VC6 toolchain already setup

axel at kollmorgen dot net
27-May-2007 11:13


>>Compiling using Visual Studio .NET will create binaries dependent of msvcp71.dll

> 

> Only if you compile with the wrong runtime library.



if this is so easy, please tell us how you managed to *not* create dependencies on msvcp71.dll/msvcr80/... using Visual C++ .NET 2000/2003/2005. thanks!

10-Dec-2006 12:09


>> Compiling using Visual Studio .NET will create binaries dependent of msvcp71.dll



Only if you compile with the wrong runtime library.

zbowden at vt dot edu
12-May-2006 12:12


When running "cscript /nologo configure.js" 5.x on Windows

2000 or XP, if you get the following error:

Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this 

property or method



You need to have at least version 5.6 of WSH. 

This is necessary because configure.js will use the .Exec() 

method of the WScript.Shell. 

This evidently didn't exist until 5.6?

 

You can download WSH 5.6 here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?

FamilyID=c717d943-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa&DisplayLang=en

C-Reaction.net - Software Development
03-Apr-2006 05:16


Don't forget to setup Environment variable:

BISON_SIMPLE="C:\\work\\win32build\\bin\\bison.simple"



or this can cause error:

c:/usr/local/lib/bison.simple: No such file or directory



Alexey Furmanov.

26-Jan-2005 10:30


Compiling using Visual Studio .NET will create binaries dependent of msvcp71.dll which has three repercussions:

1. This dll will need to be distributed.

2. The binaries are not currently compatible with the Zend optimiser (not sure why it should make a difference but it does).

3. Binaries are larger!

add a note

Installation of extensions on Windows

Xitami on Microsoft Windows

Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009