Note

As of 2018-01-01, this repository is shut down, to be restricted to be read-only.

Thanks everybody for their support, esp. @jaredallard!

For an up-to-date development, please consider the fork of user wagy at https://github.com/wagy/WinBinder/, which reportedly also has PHP 7.X support.

WinBinder

WinBinder - The native Windows binding for PHP

What is WinBinder?

WinBinder is a PHP extension written in C, that allows you to build native client-side applications for the Windows Platform in pure PHP.

What is needed to start building WinBinder applications?

You will need the source code of PHP plus the WinBinder source code.

On which PHP versions has it been tested on?

• PHP 5.6
• PHP 5.5
• PHP 5.4

For a release working with PHP 7, please consider the fork of user wagy at https://github.com/wagy/WinBinder/.

How to compile the WinBinder extension?

Prerequisites:

1. Get Microsoft Visual Studio (Express version will do)
2. Get PHP source code, e.g. from http://windows.php.net/download/
3. Compile PHP by following this guide https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild
4. Clone this repo into the folder ext/winbinder
5. compile PHP with your options 1. add --with-winbinder to compile WinBinder statically into php.exe
   configure.bat --enable-snapshot-build --enable-debug-pack --with-winbinder 2. add --with-winbinder=shared to compile WinBinder shared, i.e., to get a *.dll
   configure.bat --enable-snapshot-build --enable-debug-pack --with-winbinder=shared

Where to get further information?

See the docs!

Reporting Bugs

Report them via github issues.