PHP Setup.md

PHP Setup

Now this would be ideal if it was possible to build PHP inside Cygwin. Unfortunately it's not!

Some of thes dependencies have moved to apt-cyg-main.

apt-cyg-port install php
apt-cyg-port install php-json
apt-cyg-port install php-curl
apt-cyg-port install php-ctype
apt-cyg-port install php-session
apt-cyg-port install php-pdo_mysql
apt-cyg-port install php-sockets
apt-cyg-port install php-posix
apt-cyg-port install php-mbstring
apt-cyg-port install php-zlib
apt-cyg-port install php-zip
apt-cyg-port install php-bcmath
apt-cyg-port install php-readline
apt-cyg-port install php-tokenizer
apt-cyg-port install php-PEAR
apt-cyg-port install php-mcrypt
apt-cyg-port install php-gmp
apt-cyg-port install php-shmop
//...etc

Then get Composer, and put it in your ~/bin. Then:

chmod +x composer.phar
mv composer.phar composer

Then add this to your .zshrc:

    # Bring in Composer binaries
    if [ -d "${HOME}/.composer/vendor/bin" ] ; then
        export PATH="${HOME}/.composer/vendor/bin:${PATH}"
    fi

Then install psy/psysh via composer global require psysh/psy.

When phpbrew works!

What we're going to do use Cygwin Ports to install a base of PHP. Then install phpbrew. And from here, install Composer, and then all subsequent cool stuff.

Using our apt-cyg-port. We can install PHP!

apt-cyg-port install php
apt-cyg-port install php-PEAR
//...etc

Now we need to bring in all the Cygwin dependencies for us to use phpbrew!

apt-cyg-port install re2c
apt-cyg-main install autoconf automake curl libxslt libxslt-devel libtool libxml2 libxml2-devel bison libbz2_1 libreadline7 libreadline-devel libfreetype6 libfreetype-devel libpng15 libjpeg8 libgd2 libicu51 libicu-devel libmhash2 libmhash-devel libmcrypt4 libmcrypt-devel gettext libgettextpo0 libXpm4 libbz2-devel libiconv libcrypt-devel

Get phpbrew:

curl -OL https://raw.github.com/c9s/phpbrew/master/phpbrew
chmod +x phpbrew
mv phpbrew ~/bin/phpbrew
phpbrew init

Add this to your .zshrc

# phpbrew
if [ -d "${HOME}/.phpbrew" ] ; then
     . $HOME/.phpbrew/bashrc
fi

Potentially delete any existing ~/.pearrc. This would prevent phpbrew from complaining.

Build our PHP and start using it.

phpbrew known
phpbrew install X.X.X +default +mb +openssl -- --enable-maintainer-zts
phpbrew clean
phpbrew list
phpbrew switch X.X.X

Install some extensions:

phpbrew ext install xdebug
phpbrew ext install pthreads
phpbrew ext install yaml

Install Composer

phpbrew install-composer

Then add this to your .zshrc:

export COMPOSER_HOME="$HOME/.composer"
if [ -d "${HOME}/.composer/vendor/bin" ] ; then
    export PATH="${HOME}/.composer/vendor/bin:${PATH}"
fi

Then install psy/psysh via composer global require psysh/psy.

Note that phpbrew relies on existing system php. But once you built your own custom versions, you can install extensions.. etc.

HHVM

hhvm is not installable on Cygwin yet. Mainly the dependencies required to build are not packaged yet.

Psysh

Create a file ~/.psysh/rc.php containing:

<?php

if (file_exists(getcwd() . '/vendor/autoload.php')) {
    $composerAutoloader = getcwd() . '/vendor/autoload.php';
    return [
        'defaultIncludes' => array(
            $composerAutoloader,
        ),
    ];
}

// sets the default timezone to the TZ environment variable, that is usually available on Linux and Cygwin
date_default_timezone_set(getenv('TZ'));

?>

PECL extensions

Most extensions that are useful are already available over Cygwin.

For the ones that are not, you can install like:

pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
pecl install <ext>
cd /etc/php5/conf.d
echo "extension = <ext>.dll" >> <ext>.ini

I installed the sync extension.

Even on Cygwin, we still use dll and no so.

If you replace it with the cygwin packages, you should uninstall them first pecl uninstall <ext>; rm /etc/php5/conf.d/<ext>.ini, and then install the package.

Check if it all works by using:

php -m

The phpbrew extensions are not relevant to this. They are installed for phpbrew built runtimes.