Compiling xDebug from Source

[ChemicalBliss]

Hi guys,

 

I need to compile xDebug from the Master Git Repository for PHP 5.4.0RC8 for Windows x86.

 

I can find next to no information for loading this project into a VC9 IDE, and then compiling the result.

The source comes with a makefile batch program but does not contain the mak files themselves.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

 

PS: xDebug Source - https://github.com/derickr/xdebug

PHP5.4.0RC8 Binary/Source: http://windows.php.net/qa/

using Visual Studio 2010. And nMake 1.5.

(Windows 7)

 

Tried;

http://blog.slickedit.com/2007/09/creating-a-php-5-extension-with-visual-c-2005/

then tried running the makefile with nmake to find .mak files missing.

 

UPDATE:

Just caught this link: http://bugs.xdebug.org/view.php?id=730

Seems someone knows how to do it . Will review this case and see if I can get it to build.

 

[ChemicalBliss]

UPDATE:

 

So I followed "https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild" to the letter. All successful.

Then I try o compile the xdebug extension separately as required.

 

Steps:

 

1. Unpack xdebug (c:\xdebug)

2. run phpize (from inside xdebug - success)

3. run configure --with-xdebug ! Failure !

 

Here is the console output:

c:\php-sdk\php54a\vc9\x86\php540rc8-xyz>cd c:\xdebug

c:\xdebug>C:\php-sdk\php54a\vc9\x86\php540rc8-xyz\Release_TS\php-5.4.0RC8-devel-
VC9-x86\phpize.bat
Rebuilding configure.js
C:\php-sdk\php54a\vc9\x86\php540rc8-xyz\Release_TS\php-5.4.0RC8-devel-VC9-x86
module ...
Now run 'configure --help'

c:\xdebug>configure --with-xdebug
Saving configure options to config.nice.bat
Checking for cl.exe ...  <in default path>
  Detected compiler MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008)
  Detected 32-bit compiler
Checking for link.exe ...  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\Bin
Checking for nmake.exe ...  <in default path>
Checking for lib.exe ...  <in default path>
Checking for bison.exe ...  <in default path>
Checking for re2c.exe ...  <in default path>
  Detected re2c version 0.13.5
Checking for zip.exe ...  <in default path>
Checking for lemon.exe ...  <not found>
Checking for mc.exe ...  C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Bin
Checking for mt.exe ...  C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Bin

Build dir: Release_TS
PHP Core:  php5ts.dll and php5ts.lib

Enabling extension C:\xdebug [shared]
c:\xdebug\configure.js(1254, 3) Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'PHP_PGI' is un
defined


c:\xdebug>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1064: MAKEFILE not found and no target specified
Stop.

 

Note: During the configure process:

Enabling extension C:\xdebug [shared]

c:\xdebug\configure.js(1254, 3) Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'PHP_PGI' is undefined

I checked the JS file and that constant sure enough is not mentioned apart from 2 lines that try to read it. Along with 'PHP_PGO'. It is though, the same routines that are in the original configure.js for compiling PHP itself, which runs perfectly well without any changes. I am baffled as to why I am stuck at this point. Perhaps something is not being included as it should be.. ?

 

Thanks for any input you may have regarding this .

[ChemicalBliss]

I thought I would share the fact that I finally compiled it!

 

Basically you compile as a PECL extension (duh) - Not the way xdebug documentation suggests.

 

I now have apache 2.4.1/PHP5.4.0 and Xdebug (2.2) running with netbeans perfectly (ok 1 problem..).

 

Only problem I think is from xdebug: Max Execution Time is exceeded when debugging, just set max_execution_time in php.ini to 0 or a higher number (not sure if the web service you use will timeout also, most have 300 sec limits).

 

Thanks again

[hsoul]

I am having the same problem.  phpsize succeeds, but configure errors with PHP_PGI undefined. You said that you managed to successfully compile the extension dynamically after all... how did you achieve this?

[xyph]

If you just want XDebug, and don't need special compile flags or to directly match the compilation of a production server, you can always just grab WAMP

 

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

 

Apache 2.22, MySQL 5.5, PHP 5.4, XDebug 2.1 is available as a nice, managed package.

[hsoul]

Thanks.  Yeah, I'm actually trying to compile a different extension, not xdebug. But the steps/error messages/everything is the same as above. I'm hoping it's a build environment issue that's easily resolvable.