Compiling a php extension into a dll

Question

I've been attempting for a last few days to make use of the operator overloading extension (pecl.php.net/package/operator), which has apparently been updated recently to be compatible with 5.3 and 5.4.

I've tried compiling it in windows (64-bit Windows 7) using this guide, with PHP 5.4 and Windows SDK 7.1 without luck. So I tried doing it with PHP 5.3 and Windows SDK 6.1 and I can get it to successfully compile with the config "configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-operator" and then "nmake". The problem is that it doesn't produce a dll file for the operator extension, instead what I get is this, which is apparently useless for me. What I want is a dll I can use for my local WampServer setup.

I had had fatal errors when trying to use operator-0.4.1 from the pecl.php.net site, so instead I downloaded and compiled from the git repository (github.com/php/pecl-php-operator), which is what produced the .obj, .idb and .sbr files.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '13 at 14:26

You have to do

configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-operator=shared

otherwise it's statically compiled.

Anyway, if you want to use it with WampServer, the binary will probably not work because if I'm not mistaken WampServer is compiled against the VC10 C runtime library, while the guide you linked to instructs you to use Visual Studio 2008 (which comes with VC9). You'll need to use the VC10 compiler (I think it's bundled with Windows SDK 7.1, so you can download just that and skip Visual Studio).

I tried the above for my own extension, but it still produces a lib. I am using PHP 7.3 and VC15. How can I produce a DLL? — Arundale Ramanathan, Mar 03 '19 at 12:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 07 '19 at 05:04

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Into extension root path, and modify config.w32

EXTENSION('redis', sources); to EXTENSION('redis', sources,true);

buildconf --force

configure --enable-xx 

nmake

you'll get php-redis.dll

edited Mar 07 '19 at 05:04

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 19 '23 at 01:44

If someone stumbles as me on an error while running configure with --enable-XXX=shared

WARNING                                                                                                                                                                                                     
The following arguments is invalid, and therefore ignored:                                                                                                            
 --enable-xdebug                                                                              
 --enable-ssh2

Then configure --help indeed is your friend. These modules are included like so

configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-zlib --with-openssl --with-ssh2=shared --with-xdebug=shared

Compiling a php extension into a dll

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