Custom PHP build scripts for PocketMine-MP

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compile.sh

Bash script used to compile PHP on MacOS and Linux platforms. Make sure you have make autoconf automake libtool m4 wget getconf gzip bzip2 bison g++ git cmake pkg-config re2c ca-certificates.

Recommendations

• If you're going to use the compiled binary only on the machine you're build it on, remove the -t option for best performance - this will allow the script to optimize for the current machine rather than a generic one.
• ext-gd2 is NOT included unless the -g flag is provided, as PocketMine-MP doesn't need it. However, if your plugins need it, don't forget to enable it using -g.
• The -c and -l options can be used to specify cache folders to speed up recompiling if you're recompiling many times (e.g. to improve the script).

Common pitfalls

• Avoid using the script in directory trees containing spaces. Some libraries don't like trying to be built in directory trees containing spaces, e.g. /home/user/my folder/pocketmine-mp/ might experience problems.
• Avoid directory trees containing special (non-English) symbols. For example, Développement might cause issues.

Additional notes

Mac OSX (native compile)

• Most dependencies can be installed using Homebrew
• You will additionally need glibtool (GNU libtool, xcode libtool won't work)

Android 64-bit (cross-compile)

• Only aarch64 targets are supported for Android cross-compile.
• The aarch64-linux-musl toolchain is required. You can compile and install it using https://github.com/pmmp/musl-cross-make (PMMP fork includes musl-libc patches for DNS resolver config path and increasing stack size limit for LevelDB)

Script flags	Description
-c	Uses the folder specified for caching downloaded tarballs, zipballs etc.
-d	Compiles with debugging symbols and disables optimizations (slow, but useful for debugging segfaults)
-D	Compiles with separated debugging symbols, but leaves optimizations enabled (used for distributed binaries)
-g	Will compile GD2
-j	Set make threads to #
-l	Uses the folder specified for caching compilation artifacts (useful for rapid rebuild and testing)
-n	Don't remove sources after completing compilation
-s	Will compile everything statically
-t	Set target
-v	Enable Valgrind support in PHP
-x	Specifies we are doing cross-compile
-P	Compiles extensions for the major PocketMine-MP version specified (can be 4 or 5)

Example:

Target	Arguments
linux64	-t linux64 -j4 -P5
linux64, PM4	-t linux64 -j4 -P4
mac64	-t mac-x86-64 -j4 -P5
android-aarch64	-t android-aarch64 -x -j4 -P5

windows-compile-vs.bat

Batch script utilizing Visual Studio on Windows to compile PHP binaries from sources. Ensure you have Visual Studio 2019, git, 7z and wget installed in your PATH.

This script doesn't accept parameters, but the following environment variables are influential:

Variable	Description
PHP_DEBUG_BUILD	Disables optimisations and builds PHP with detailed debugging information (useful for debugging segfaults)
SOURCES_PATH	Where to put the downloaded sources for compilation
VS_EDITION	Edition of Visual Studio installed, set to Community by default
PM_VERSION_MAJOR	Major version of PocketMine-MP to build extensions for (defaults to 4, can be 4 or 5)

For developers: Version info sources

Libraries

Name of package	Version info URL	Needed for	Notes
zlib	https://github.com/madler/zlib/tags	Compression
gmp	https://gmplib.org/	Big integer math for Bedrock packet encryption	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
curl	https://github.com/curl/curl/releases	Web requests
libyaml	https://github.com/yaml/libyaml/releases	Parsing YAML config files
leveldb	https://github.com/pmmp/leveldb/commits/mojang-compatible/	Bedrock world support	Custom version based on google/leveldb with minimum required changes to support MCPE worlds
libxml	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases	XML parsing support for UPnP	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
libpng	https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/	php-gd, plugin use only	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
libjpeg	https://ijg.org/	php-gd, plugin use only	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
openssl	https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases	Bedrock packet encryption, secure web requests
libzip	https://github.com/nih-at/libzip/releases	Resource packs
sqlite3	https://sqlite.org/download.html	Plugin use only	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
libdeflate	https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate/blob/master/NEWS.md	Faster alternative to zlib for network use
pthreads4w	https://sourceforge.net/projects/pthreads4w/files/	Needed by ext-pmmpthread on Windows	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages

PHP & extensions

Name of package	Version info URL	Needed for	Notes
PHP	https://www.php.net/releases/?json&version=8.2	Everything	Replace 8.2 with your chosen version
pmmpthread	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-pmmpthread/releases	PHP threading
yaml	https://github.com/php/pecl-file_formats-yaml/tags	YAML config parsing	Yes, the mix of - and _ is intentional. Don't ask me.
leveldb	https://github.com/pmmp/php-leveldb/commits/pmmp-mojang-compatible/	Bedrock world support	Custom version to provide LEVELDB_ZLIB_RAW_COMPRESSION support
chunkutils2	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-chunkutils2/releases	PalettedBlockArray and other low-level stuff
xdebug	https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug/releases	Debugging	Not needed for production
igbinary	https://github.com/igbinary/igbinary/releases	Faster serialization, mostly for moving stuff between threads	Non-essential, could be ditched if necessary
crypto	https://github.com/bukka/php-crypto/tags	Bedrock packet encryption
recursionguard	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-recursionguard/releases	Debugging	Not needed for production
libdeflate	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-libdeflate/releases	Faster network compression	Non-essential but provides significant performance advantage over zlib
morton	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-morton	Packing X/Z and X/Y/Z coordinates into ints in a format suitable for PHP array keys	Needed for performance
xxhash	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-xxhash/releases	Not currently used	Could be replaced by hash() in recent versions of PHP but this extension has much better performance
arraydebug	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-arraydebug/tags	Debugging array hash collisions
encoding	https://github.com/pmmp/ext-encoding/releases	Not currently used	Experimental, intended to replace BinaryUtils but never finished

Misc

Name of package	Version info URL	Needed for	Notes
php-sdk-binary-tools	https://github.com/php/php-sdk-binary-tools/releases	Building PHP on Windows