Hi Horváth, just wanted to give my +1 on this one. For our use-case (PHP Embed, ZTS, Static Build) this would greatly simplify our build-system which is already using CMake in a lot of parts. Unfortunately I am not a CMake expert, but could offer help in testing and feedback.
Regards, Michael Am Do., 16. Dez. 2021 um 18:53 Uhr schrieb Horváth V. < friendlyan...@hotmail.com>: > Hello internals, > > I'm writing to you to find out what the reception here is regarding the > idea of moving the PHP project to build using CMake. > > I have looked around and I found 2 attempts of doing just that in the > past (in 2008 via GSoC and something else maybe in 2014 that I couldn't > find the exact info for before writing this email), but nothing came of > those attempts. I have also briefly suggested the idea to Sara Golemon > on Reddit and she didn't seem to be completely against the idea. > > For my attempt, I would also optionally use Conan as a means of fetching > dependencies in a cross-platform manner, which would make the need for > OS specific SDKs (like the Windows one) unnecessary. Thanks to CMake's > amazing customizability, using Conan can be made completely optional and > PHP could still continue to build with just system dependencies. > > Moving the build system to use CMake instead of the current split > between a *nix and Windows solution would bring everything to one place > and providing CMake bits in the install interface of PHP would make it > easier to develop and use PHP from a development point of view thanks to > CMake packages. > > I am planning to make a YouTube video of the whole process of me doing > this grunt work, while I explore the current situation regarding > building PHP and explain what I do and why. I think that it'd generally > be a good thing to have such a video for transparency and it could be > interesting educational material for people who are in a similar > situation and wish to move to building their projects using CMake. > > For reference, I occasionally contribute to the CMake project, I'm the > author of https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init which aims to > simplify quickly scaffolding a CMake project that's setup correctly and > I'm in the process of peer reviewing a CMake related book. > > Let me know what you think. > > Regards, > Horváth V. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
