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Libraries Needed to Build on Windows

Libraries are available for download at http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/ . The sources prepared to be built for PHP are available under https://github.com/winlibs/

Mandatory

Library name	Project	Bundled	5.3	5.4	master
bindlib	http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/bindlib_w32/	No	Needed only for PHP <= 5.2 or some specific extensions
pcre (bundled)	ext/pcre/pcrelib	Yes	8.12	8.12	8.12
zlib	http://www.zlib.net/	No	1.2.7	1.2.7	1.2.7
libiconv	http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/	No	1.14	1.14	1.14
libxml2	http://libxml.org	No	2.7.8	2.7.8	2.7.8
ICU	http://icu-project.org	No	49.1.2	49.1.2	49.1.2

SAPIS

SAPI's are reliant on third party libraries to link against, and since client and server compiler versions should match, these are not distributed by PHP (we are not in the server business)

SAPI	server	version	released	VC6	V8	V9
aolserver	http://aolserver.com/	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
apache (1.x)	http://httpd.apache.org/	1.3.41	2008-01-19	Yes	N/A	N/A
apache_hooks (1.x)	http://httpd.apache.org/	1.3.41	2008-01-19	Yes	N/A	N/A
apache2handler	http://httpd.apache.org/	2.0.63	2008-01-19	Yes	TbD	Yes
apache2filter	http://httpd.apache.org/	2.0.63	2008-01-19	Yes	TbD	Yes
apache2-2handler	http://httpd.apache.org/	2.2.9	2008-01-19	Yes	TbD	TbD
apache2-2filter	http://httpd.apache.org/	2.2.9	2008-01-19	Yes	TbD	TbD
cli	bundled	N/A	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
fastcgi/cgi	bundled	N/A	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
embed	bundled	N/A	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
isapi	IIS - in Microsoft SDK	N/A	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
nsapi	http://www.sun.com/software/products/web_srvr/home_web_srvr.xml	unknown	unknown	Yes	TbD	TbD
pi3web	http://pi3web.sourceforge.net/	2.0.3	08/2004	Yes	TbD	TbD

Aolserver does not provide binaries, and so is not currently being built for PHP

Libraries for the core extensions

Libraries are available for download at http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/

Library name	Project	Bundled	5.3	5.4	master
bzip2	http://www.bzip.org/	No	1.0.6	1.0.6	1.0.6
libcurl	http://curl.haxx.se/	No	7.27.0	7.27.0	7.27.0
libssh2	http://libssh.org/	No	1.4.2	1.4.2	1.4.2
Berkley DB	http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html	No	3.1.17	TbD	TbD
glib		No
qdbm	http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/	No	N/A	1.8.77	1.8.77
libJPEG	http://www.ijg.org/	No	6b	6b	6b
libPNG	http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html	No	1.2.46	1.2.46	1.2.46
Freetype	http://freetype.org	No	2.4.3	2.4.3	2.4.3
libxpm	http://www.x.org	No	3.5.7	3.5.7	3.5.7
libintl	http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/	No	?	0.17	0.17
libgmp	http://gmplib.org/	No	see MPIR
mpir	http://mpir.org/	No	1.3.1	2.5.1	2.5.1
libpq	http://postgresql.org	No	8.3.6	8.3.6	8.3.6
cclient	http://www.washington.edu/imap/	No	2007e	2007e	2007e
ibase	http://info.borland.com/devsupport/interbase/opensource/	No	?	?	?
fbclient	http://www.firebirdsql.org/	No	2.5.0	2.5.0	2.5.0
ldap	http://openldap.org	No	2004	2.3.42	2.3.42
libmcrypt	http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/	No	2.5.8	2.5.8	2.5.8
freetds	http://www.freetds.org/	No	?	?	?
ming	http://www.libming.org/	No	0.3beta1	NA	NA
mysqlnd	http://php.net	Yes	5.1.4	5.1.4	5.1.4
libmysql	http://mysql.com/	No	5.0.51a	N/A	N/A
Openssl	http://openssl.org	No	0.9.8x	0.9.8x	0.9.8x
aspell	http://aspell.net/	No	NA	NA	NA
ucd-snmp	http://www.net-snmp.org/	No	4.2.3	4.2.3	4.2.3
tidy	http://tidy.sourceforge.net/	No	2007/08/15	2009/03/25	2009/03/25
libxslt	http://libxml.org	No	1.1.27	1.1.27	1.1.27
libmhash	http://mhash.sourceforge.net/	No	20020524	N/A	N/A
odbc32.lib	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK	No	N/A	N/A	N/A
oleaut32.lib	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK	No	N/A	N/A	N/A
libbcmath	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
libinifile	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
libflatfile	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
libcdb	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
regex	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
oniguruma	http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/	Yes	4.4.4	4.4.4	4.4.4
libmbfl	N/A	Yes	1.1.0	1.1.0	1.1.0
libxmlrpc	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A
sqlite2	http://www.sqlite.org/	Yes	2.8.17	2.8.17	2.8.17
sqlite3	http://www.sqlite.org/	Yes	3.7.7.1	3.7.7.1	3.7.7.1
timezonedb	ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A

Libraries used by our windows ports of the different libraries (not when building only php)

Libraries are available for download at http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/

Library name	Project	Bundled	Version for 5.2.x	Version for 5.3.x	Version for 6.x	6.0	2k5	2k8	64bits	Debug
dirent	http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/	No	20080629	20080629	20080629	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

Third Party Libraries

Third party libraries are not available in our repositories. The reason are the miscellaneous restricted licenses and non open sources code. However, we are authorized to distribute them with our PHP releases but not their SDK.

ibm_db2 - ibm_db2
msql - Mini SQL
mssql/pdo_dblib - ntwdblib, only available with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or earlier
oci8/pdo_oci - oracle
sybase_ct - Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

Library dependencies

Library	Deps
libxml2	libiconv
libxslt	libxml2, libiconv
libcurl	libssh2, openssl, zlib
libssh2	openssl, zlib

Extensions and their libraries

Extension	Library name	Project	Bundled
bcmath	libbcmath	http://www.php.net/bcmath	Yes
bz2	bzip2	http://www.php.net/bzip2	No
com_donet	oleaut32.lib	http://www.php.net/com	No
curl	libcurl	http://www.php.net/curl	No
date	timezonedb	http://www.php.net/datetime	Yes
dba	Berkley DB	http://www.php.net/dba	No
	qdbm	http://www.php.net/dba	No
	libinifile	http://www.php.net/dba	Yes
	libflatfile	http://www.php.net/dba	Yes
	libcdb	http://www.php.net/dba	Yes
ereg	regex	N/A	Yes
gd	libJPEG	http://www.php.net/image	No
	libPNG	http://www.php.net/image	No
	Freetype	http://www.php.net/image	No
	libxmp	http://www.php.net/image	No
gettext	libintl	http://www.php.net/gettext	No
gmp	libgmp or mpir	http://www.php.net/gmp	No
ibm_db2	ibm_db2	http://www.php.net/ibm_db2	Yes
imap	cclient	http://www.php.net/imap	No
interbase	ibase	http://www.php.net/interbase	No
intl	icu	http://www.php.net/intl	No
pdo_firebird	fbclient	http://www.php.net/pdo-firebird	No
ldap	ldap	http://www.php.net/ldap	No
mbstring	oniguruma	http://www.php.net/ldap	Yes
	libmbfl	N/A	Yes
mcrypt	libmcrypt	http://www.php.net/mcrypt	No
mhash	libmhash	http://www.php.net/mhash	No
ming	ming	http://www.php.net/ming	No
mssql	freetds	http://www.php.net/mssql	No
pdo_mysql	mysqlnd	http://www.php.net/pdo-mysql	Yes
	libmysql	http://www.php.net/pdo-mysql	No
mysqli	mysqlnd	http://www.php.net/mysqli	Yes
	libmysql	http://www.php.net/mysqli	No
mysql	mysqlnd	http://www.php.net/mysql	Yes
	libmysql	http://www.php.net/mysql	No
oci8	oci8	http://www.php.net/oci8	Yes
pdo_odbc	odbc32.lib	http://www.php.net/pdo-odbc	No
odbc	odbc32.lib	http://www.php.net/odbc	No
openssl	Openssl	http://www.php.net/openssl	No
pdo_sqlite	sqlite	http://www.php.net/pdo-sqlite	Yes
sqlite	sqlite	http://www.php.net/sqlite	Yes
pgsql/pdo_pgsql	libpg	http://www.php.net/pdo-pgsql	No
pgsql	libpg	http://www.php.net/pgsql	No
pspell	aspell	http://www.php.net/pspell	No
snmp	ucd-snmp	http://www.php.net/snmp	No
tidy	tidy	http://www.php.net/tidy	No
xmlrpc	libxmlrpc	http://www.php.net/xmlrpc	Yes
xsl	libxslt	http://www.php.net/xsl	No

Extensions using mandatory libs

dom
iconv
libxml
pcre
simplexml
soap
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
zlib
zip

Extensions not needing libraries

calendar
ctype
dbase
filter
ftp
json
mime-magic (does require file set in ini)
pcntl (currently not available on windows)
pdo (core)
phar (although it does depend on other extensions)
posix (never available on windows)
recode (library not available on windows)
readline (library not available on Windows)
session
shmop
skeleton
sockets
spl
standard
sybase (old old not available on windows)
sysvmsg (currently not available on windows)
sysvsem (currently not available on windows)
sysvshm (currently not available on windows)
tokenizer
wddx

PECL Extensions

General Compiling Guidelines

Any makefiles, project files, source, .rc files - basically anything used to compile a library for PHP should be bundled into a source distribution.

dlls should have a .rc file with a minimum of the version and compiler used

Because windows doesn't differentiate between static libs and dll stub libs (both end in .lib) use a _a suffix for a static lib (libxml2_a.lib)

Any debug version of a library or dll should have a _debug suffix