PHP Compiler / Embedder (php2exe)

[supercranky]

Hello!

There is a tool available for converting PHP applications to a stand-alone windows .exe executables. Good for distributing command-line tools, windowed php apps etc. (yes, I made it myself

http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile

cheers,
Cranky

[Xnuiem]

What are you compiling? PHP is an interpreteded language, so I am unclear as to what you are compiling. And how you found something to run it once it is compiled.

[supercranky]

Ah, It's not really a PHP to native machine code compiler. But it stores the compiled PHP bytecode in a windows exe including all PHP runtime libraries.
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[Xnuiem]

Ah, very interesting. What are you accomplishing doing that? Is this something to just install on Windows a lot easier?

[supercranky]

Yes, it's for distributing command line tools or windowed php apps in an easy way. It's done by using the encode library in Turck MMCache together with a PHP launcher exe that has everything statically linked. Good when you want to protect your sources, also.

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[msheresh]

NuSphere has released this php deployment tool for windows - PhpDock. Very nice!

[ishan]

The only problem with Bamcompile is that it only can use PHP4, and i need some new stuff from PHP5...