local Php

Anon

just kinda a curiosity question is there anyway to compile php into an exe file to be able to run locally? kinda like Java does. I think probably not but it never hurts to ask

John

Anon

Search the net with the keyword "php2exe"; you'll get some results.

Diego

theslinky

On linux, you can run the configure script to make it into a CGI versus a lib.

I think the source for windows also allows that. I have no clue what compilation system the win source code uses (cygwin??). Anyway, somewhere in the config there should be a setting for CGI mode or CGI binary. Set that and it will compile an EXE.

If you download the IIS distrib, I think that contains a CGI (an exe program). I'm not 100% sure, but download it and see. Don't run the setup, just look through the files and if you spot a php.exe, copy that file along with all the DLLs and INIs to a system directory like C:\WINNT or WINNT\System32 (or Windows, if you aren't on nt/2k/xppro)

-sridhar

Anon

The distributed Windows executable runs on any Win32 system, and a command can be added to .php files' registry information to run them under php.exe.

But that needs PHP to be installed on whatever machine the scripts are being run on; what's wanted (if I read John's post right) is a way to compiled php scripts into native standalone executables. And I have to say, searching for php2exe is one if the few times Google has let me down. Diego's suggestion seems to be complete vapourware.

Chances are that only a subset of the PHP language would be supported, since otherwise an entire PHP parsing engine would have to be bundled into every executable - because of the existence of eval().