Posted by Chung Leong on 10/14/62 11:38

Boris wrote:
> "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com>,
> news:1138324544.623561.61790@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Boris wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
> > experimental stage.
>
> But even though it was experimental you could at least try your luck. Right
> now you can't even load the extension.
>
> Boris

In my experience the extension was highly unstable.

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