pecl extesions for windows

Question

I found few related posts here but didn't get my answer. So posting again.
How would i install a pecl extension on windows? Say I want the pecl oAuth extesion on windows xp.
I know 2 methods, but none of them is working for me.

1. The site http://pecl4win.php.net/ is down for months. So I cant download the dll. Is there any place we can download the dlls from ?

2. running the command pecl install oauth-0.99.9.tgz is throwing the error
   The DSP oauth.dsp does not exist.
   I tried with few other extensions also and getting the same error.

What am I missing here ?

Answer 1

The PECL installer downloads the source code of the extension and tries to compile it with your local C compiler. The problem is that the whole process is designed for Unix systems, where a C compiler is available or can be easily installed. Setting an environment to compile C code under Windows is pretty complicate.

The ideal solution is getting a DLL file that someone already compiled. That's what the pcle4win site was for. However, there's currently no official repository to download PECL DLLs so you only have two alternatives:

• Find an unofficial DLL somewhere in Google
• Compile it yourself (another link) with Microsoft Visual Studio

It'd be cool that there was a DLL repository out there but I'm unaware of any.

Answer 2

The php source ships with a set of configuration scripts for windows (using windows script host) that mimics the autoconf tools as far as php is concerned. If you place the code for the extension in a directory under the /ext directory (where all the other extensions like bcmath, bzip, ... are located) you can let the buildconf-script create a makefile that includes the build rules for that (new) extension.
There's a step-by-step walk-through at http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild which seems to be brief but feasible.

Answer 3

Currently PECL for windows is in an odd reformation state. The reason being that I believe they are trying to provide VS2008 source versions. I would actually suggest using Zend Server for now until the windows half of the php group gets everything fixed up. Zend Server includes almost all of the extensions that you can find in PECL, and everything else, if you are lucky, you could find an compile yourself.

Answer 4

Unfortunately the pecl4win site lacks due to limited resources. Pierre, our windows build master, creates extensions randomly on request and makes them available via http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ until the new PECL infrastructure is ready.

If you need an extension not available there you might ask on the pecl-dev at lists.php.net mailing list.

Answer 5

you can found PECL for windows here http://museum.php.net/php5/