Zephir installation on Windows OS

Question

I'm trying to start with Zephir on Windows 10 OS, PHP Version 7.3.0.

I've to figure out the installation guide. I guess, I don't need GCC according to Download and Install GCC Compiler in C for Windows PC, because Visual C++ 2005 compiler is already installed.

I've downloaded and installed Setup re2c-0.9.4.exe Re2C for Windows instead Re2C.

In C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test I have test.php:

 <?PHP 
 require 'calc.zep';
 $m = new MyClass();
 $m->hello();
 ?>

Also, I've added Zephir Syntax Highlight package to Sublime Text 3 IDE and created second document calc.zep with:

class MyClass
{
    public function hello()
    {
        echo "hello!";
    }
}

Then install Zephir parser, locating php_zephir_parser.dll version zephir_parser-php-7.3-nts-windows2019-vc15-x64.zip to C:\xampp\php\ext. Next, I've edited C:\xampp\php\php.ini file by adding these lines:

[Zephir Parser]
extension=php_zephir_parser.dll

to Dynamic Extensions, but with [Zephir Parser] part of lines, xampp does not load localhost. So I've added it like this ;extension=php_zephir_parser at the end of the extensions list, hope this is the correct way of edit for php.ini with extension adding:

    ...
    ;extension=pdo_sqlite
    ;extension=pgsql
    ;extension=shmop 
    ;extension=php_zephir_parser

According to install Zephir Git Way:

git clone https://github.com/zephir-lang/zephir to C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test, then cd zephir to C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test\zephir and ./install -c which is

not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

then composer install, and with zephir help or zephir generate I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'Config' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) in C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test\zephir\Library\Logger\Formatter\CompilerFormatter.php on line 33

composer -V shows Composer version 2.3.9

test.php result is the same as without php_zephir_parser.dll:

class MyClass { public function hello() { echo "hello!"; } } Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'MyClass' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test\test.php:5 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test\test.php on line 5

Maybe I have to update PHP Version 7.3.0. to PHP Version 7.4.0.

Do I have to follow another guide Zephir Installation/Usage Guide (Windows) or PHP: A case for Zephir or I've missed or done something incorrectly with guidelines for installing the Zephir environment on Windows OS.

Any guide, advice, or example would be useful.

edit:

I've downloaded php-8.1.12-Win32-vs16-x64 and added php-8.1.12 folder to C:\xampp directory with keeping previous PHP Version 7.3.0 folder there.

In php-8.1.12 folder I've created php.ini from the copy of php.ini-development and uncommented extension_dir = "ext", extension=curl, extension=ftp, extension=fileinfo, extension=openssl, extension=pdo_mysql and extension=pdo_sqlite.

In C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp-config file I've added PHP 8.1.12 Set-up ScriptAlias /php-8.1.12/ "C:/xampp/php-8.1.12/" and <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/user/test">, according this example httpd-xampp.conf

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/user/test"> shows PHP Version 8.1.12 with phpinfo(); and CLI php --version inside test folder and keeps older PHP versions separately for other projects.

The result with zephir help command is successful: Zephir 0.16.3 is installed, but zephir generate requires a parser:

[ERROR] The Zephir Parser extension is not loaded. Note: Zephir no longer distributed with internal parser. To install latest stable Zephir Parser please refer to: https://github.com/zephir-lang/php-zephir-parser

Then I've added zephir_parser-php-8.1-nts-windows2019-vs16-x64.zip php_zephir_parser.dll to C:\xampp\php-8.1.12\ext, then added ;extension=php_zephir_parser.dll to C:\xampp\php-8.1.12\php.ini.

If I uncomment with removing semicolons ; from extension=php_zephir_parser.dll I get the error:

Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: malformed header from script 'php-cgi.exe': Bad header:
Error 500 localhost Apache/2.4.37 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.1.1a PHP/7.3.0

With the restart of localhost I've changed extension=php_zephir_parser to extension=zephir_parser and also have tried extension=php_zephir_parser.dll, in all cases zephir build command:

C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test\zephir PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'zephir_parser' (tried: ext\zephir_parser (The specified module could not be found), ext\php_zephir_parser.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'zephir_parser' (tried: ext\zephir_parser (The specified module could not be found), ext\php_zephir_parser.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0

[ERROR] The Zephir Parser extension is not loaded. Note: Zephir no longer distributed with internal parser. To install latest stable Zephir Parser please refer to: https://github.com/zephir-lang/php-zephir-parser The system cannot find the path specified. Preparing for PHP compilation... The system cannot find the path specified. [ERROR] file_get_contents(ext\configure.js): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

and php --ini from C:\Users\User>:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'zephir_parser' (tried: ext\zephir_parser (The specified module could not be found), ext\php_zephir_parser.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'zephir_parser' (tried: ext\zephir_parser (The specified module could not be found), ext\php_zephir_parser.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: Loaded Configuration File:
C:\xampp\php-8.1.12\php.ini Scan for additional .ini files in: (none) Additional .ini files parsed: (none)

The answer on error zephir_parser extension not loaded windows says that's the using of extension via a web server, requires adding extension=zephir_parser to both the CLI and the apache/fpm php.ini files, but I can't find this directory in C:\xampp\apache.

According Zephir Installation/Usage Guide (Windows) I've downloaded php-debug-pack-8.1.12-Win32-vs16-x64.zip and deps-7.1-vc14-x64.7z. But then I installed it according to Get Started with PHP SDK with composer require contentstack/contentstack command to C:\xampp\htdocs\user\test