<?php $_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'build-setup.php'; include_once __DIR__ . '/include/prepend.inc'; $SIDEBAR_DATA = ' <div class="panel"> <div class="body"> <p> This page is intended to help setup a development environment for PHP, if mistakes are found please <a href="http://bugs.php.net">report</a> them. </p> </div> </div> '; site_header("Operating System Preparation", ["current" => "community"]); ?> <h2 id="os-prep" class="content-header">Operating System Preparation</h2> <div class="content-box"> <p> Improving PHP requires a working build environment to test changes, the following section deals with setting up a working build environment. </p> <p> Your build environment should have an appropriate toolchain that includes a working C compiler, for those not working in Microsoft Windows, you will need a working, compatible autotools installation, and at the very least a shared copy of zlib. </p> <p> For most *nix like operating systems, some external dependencies may be required to bring a build to completion; if a build fails because of missing headers or libraries, issuing a variant of the following command should resolve those dependencies, allowing the build to continue: <ul> <li><pre class="small">[sudo] yum|apt-get|ports install package[-dev[el]]</pre></li> </ul> </p> <p> For those working in <i>Ubuntu Linux</i>, you can run the following command to automate the installation of dependencies: <ul> <li><pre class="small">sudo apt-get build-dep php5</pre></li> </ul> If the compilation of <i>an extension</i> should fail because of missing dependencies, <i>Ubuntu Linux</i> can attempt to automate the resolution of those dependencies by issuing: <ul> <li><pre class="small">sudo apt-get build-dep php5-<i>extname</i></pre></li> </ul> </p> <p> The following table shows what is required for Microsoft Windows users to build PHP: </p> <table> <tr> <th>PHP</th> <th>Visual C++</th> <th>MS SDK</th> <th>DEPS</th> <th>PHP SDK</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">5.3</td> <td align="center">Visual Studio 2008</td> <td align="center">6.1</td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps-5.3-vc9-x86.7z">x86</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/php-sdk-binary-tools-20110512.zip">here</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">5.4</td> <td align="center">Visual Studio 2008</td> <td align="center">6.1</td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps-5.4-vc9-x86.7z">x86</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/php-sdk-binary-tools-20110915.zip">here</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">5.5</td> <td align="center">Visual Studio 2008</td> <td align="center">6.1</td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps-5.5-vc9-x86.7z">x86</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/php-sdk-binary-tools-20110915.zip">here</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">5.5</td> <td align="center">Visual Studio 2012</td> <td align="center">N/A</td> <td align="center"> <a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps-5.5-vc11-x86.7z">x86</a>, <a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/deps-5.5-vc11-x64.7z">x64</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/php-sdk-binary-tools-20110915.zip">here</a></td> </tr> </table> <p><b>Note:</b> If a Windows SDK is required, it is advised to install the SDK <i>before</i> Visual Studio.</p> </div> <h2 id="workspace-prep" class="content-header">Workspace Preparation</h2> <div class="content-box"> <p> Windows users should now download and unzip the PHP SDK to their workspace and execute the following commands in an appropriate Visual Studio Console: </p> <p> Visual Studio 2008: <ul> <li><pre>setenv /xp /Release /x86</pre></li> </ul> Visual Studio 2008 and 2012: <ul> <li><pre class="small">cd C:\path-to-workspace</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">bin\phpsdk_setvars.bat</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">bin\phpsdk_buildtree.bat phpdev</pre></li> </ul> Windows should now change to the directory C:\path-to-workspace\phpdev\<i>VCXX</i>\<i>XARCH</i>, and consider it the root of the workspace for the current build. </p> <p> The next step for everyone is to obtain the versioned PHP sources via git: <ul> <li><pre class="small">git clone -b BRANCH https://github.com/php/php-src .</pre></li> </ul> BRANCH should be replaced with an appropriate branch name, for example <i>PHP-5.5</i>. </p> <p> At this point you have a working build environment and the vanilla sources for your chosen branch of PHP, it is a good idea, before you change anything at all, to create a new branch and switch to it, in preparation for your awesome changes to come: <ul> <li><pre class="small">git checkout -b my-awesome-changes</pre></li> </ul> </p> </div> <h2 id="build-dev" class="content-header">Building Your Development PHP</h2> <div class="content-box"> <p> All operating systems now converge on (near as makes no difference) the same solutions for the rest of the build process: <ul class="listed"> <li><pre class="small">buildconf: generates the configure script for PHP</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">configure: configures the build of PHP and creates Makefile</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">make: builds PHP</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">make test: runs testsuite</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">make install: installs PHP</pre></li> </ul> </p> <p> For Microsoft Windows operating systems, those commands looks like this: <ul class="listed"> <li><pre class="small">buildconf</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">configure --with-prefix=C:\my-awesome-php</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">nmake</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">nmake test</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">nmake install</pre></li> </ul> </p> <p> While for the rest of us, those commands look like this: <ul class="listed"> <li><pre class="small">./buildconf</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">./configure --prefix=/opt/my-awesome-php</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">make</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">make test</pre></li> <li><pre class="small">make install</pre></li> </ul> </p> <p> The <i>configure</i> script has the ability to customize almost every aspect of PHP, to elicit help at the console pass <i>--help</i> as the only argument to <i>configure</i></p> <p> When <i>configure</i> executes, it saves the options passed in to a re-usable <i>config.nice</i> which executes <i>configure</i> when invoked. </p> <p> Upon successful completion of a build, it is recommended to run the test suite, this will help you to identify regression problems in your work, running the test suite can take a while; go out for a run, or a burger. </p> <p> It is also possible to run a set (directory) of tests in the following way: <ul> <li><pre class="small">[n]make test TESTS=sapi/cli</pre></li> </ul> </p> </div> <?php site_footer(['sidebar' => $SIDEBAR_DATA]);