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  • Boris
    #1

    Is W32api dead?

    The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
    that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled
    with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
    called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?) I
    downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
    http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
    extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:

    PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
    Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
    PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
    These options need to match

    From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even though
    it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module API
    from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that ffi
    isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
    last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a ready-to-use
    PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?

    Boris


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    • Chung Leong
      #2
      Re: Is W32api dead?


      Boris wrote:[color=blue]
      > The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
      > that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled
      > with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
      > called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?) I
      > downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
      > http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
      > extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
      >
      > PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
      > Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
      > PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
      > These options need to match
      >
      > From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even though
      > it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module API
      > from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that ffi
      > isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
      > last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a ready-to-use
      > PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
      >
      > Boris[/color]

      Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
      experimental stage.

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        • Boris
          #3
          Re: Is W32api dead?


          "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@ hotmail.com>,
          news:1138324544 .623561.61790@z 14g2000cwz.goog legroups.com...[color=blue]
          >
          > Boris wrote:[color=green]
          >> The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
          >> that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer
          >> bundled
          >> with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
          >> called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the
          >> documentation?) I
          >> downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
          >> http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
          >> extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
          >>
          >> PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
          >> Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
          >> PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
          >> These options need to match
          >>
          >> From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even
          >> though
          >> it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module
          >> API
          >> from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that
          >> ffi
          >> isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
          >> last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a
          >> ready-to-use
          >> PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
          >>
          >> Boris[/color]
          >
          > Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
          > experimental stage.[/color]

          But even though it was experimental you could at least try your luck. Right
          now you can't even load the extension.

          Boris


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            • Chung Leong
              #4
              Re: Is W32api dead?

              Boris wrote:[color=blue]
              > "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@ hotmail.com>,
              > news:1138324544 .623561.61790@z 14g2000cwz.goog legroups.com...[color=green]
              > >
              > > Boris wrote:[color=darkred]
              > >> The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
              > >> that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer
              > >> bundled
              > >> with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
              > >> called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the
              > >> documentation?) I
              > >> downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
              > >> http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
              > >> extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
              > >>
              > >> PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
              > >> Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
              > >> PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
              > >> These options need to match
              > >>
              > >> From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even
              > >> though
              > >> it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module
              > >> API
              > >> from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that
              > >> ffi
              > >> isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
              > >> last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a
              > >> ready-to-use
              > >> PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
              > >>
              > >> Boris[/color]
              > >
              > > Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
              > > experimental stage.[/color]
              >
              > But even though it was experimental you could at least try your luck. Right
              > now you can't even load the extension.
              >
              > Boris[/color]

              In my experience the extension was highly unstable.

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                • Jonathan
                  #5
                  Re: Is W32api dead?

                  Boris wrote:[color=blue]
                  > The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
                  > that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled
                  > with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
                  > called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?) I
                  > downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
                  > http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
                  > extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
                  >
                  > PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
                  > Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
                  > PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
                  > These options need to match
                  >
                  > From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even though
                  > it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module API
                  > from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that ffi
                  > isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
                  > last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a ready-to-use
                  > PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
                  >
                  > Boris
                  >
                  >[/color]
                  It probably only works with older versions of PHP, probably far before
                  PHP 5. Have seen this message a few times when I tried to load of a
                  custom imagick dll in a new PHP version as there was now new imagick
                  version. Downgrading (for the time being) to a lower PHP version solved
                  my problem back then.

                  Jonathan

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