Compiling php_excel and LibXL on Windows

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Compiling php_excel and LibXL on Windows

I am trying to create PHP on Windows along with the popular C library for processing Excel, LibXL . This library has a built-in PHP extension called php_excel . I am trying to build the latter as a shared DLL on Windows, rather than statically compiling it in PHP for distribution.

My starting point for compiling is PHP buidling for Windows wiki entries , and I use Visual Studio 2008 and the Windows SDK 6.1 as recommended, for further guidance in this explanation my reference directory c:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\. PHP snapshot links are shown as a folder php5.3-x, where x is the date-time of the snapshot assembly.

After extracting the snapshot of PHP, I add bin\libxl.dll, include_c\*and lib\libxl.libto the corresponding folders in deps.

Then I extract the php_excel's extension php5.3-x\ext\excel-0.9.1.

Run buildconfand configure --helpshows that the extension is displayed. Then I run:

configure --disable-all --enable-cli --with-excel=shared --disable-zts --disable-isapi --disable-nsapi
nmake

To create a VC9 non-thread safe DLL assembly.

In nmakeI encounter syntax errors for each header file in LibXL:

c:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\deps\include\enum.h(4) : error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'libxl'
c:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\deps\include\enum.h(4) : error C2059: syntax error: ';'
...

and syntax errors in excel.c source for php_excel:

ext\excel-0.9.1\excel.c(33) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'f'
ext\excel-0.9.1\excel.c(33) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'f'
ext\excel-0.9.1\excel.c(33) : error C2059: syntax error : ';'
ext\excel-0.9.1\excel.c(33) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
...

Here, for example, are these two sections from the corresponding files:

enum.h

#ifndef ENUM_CPP_H
#define ENUM_CPP_H

namespace libxl { # line 4
    ...
}

excel.c

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif

#include "libxl.h"
#include <stdlib.h>

#include "php.h"
#include "php_ini.h"
#include "ext/standard/info.h"
#include "ext/date/php_date.h"
#include "php_excel.h"
#include "zend_exceptions.h"

static long xlFormatBorder(FormatHandle f) # line 33
{
    return 1;
}