PHP8 support

[brainfoolong]

Hi there. I'm just here to ask for the PHP8 support plans, as we now have public available alpha to test with.

[David-Engel]

We are working on it. We plan to support it in the next GA release at the latest (~end of January). It will probably be included in a preview release prior to that (preview dates are TBD).

[brainfoolong]

It will probably be included in a preview release prior to that (preview dates are TBD).

Thx. That sounds good, it helps a lot with alpha/beta testing for our apps that require this library.

[mbiebl]

@David-Engel Can you comment on the recent news that MS is dropping support for PHP8, is that going to affect sqlsrv? And if so, how?

[David-Engel]

@mbiebl I assume you are referring to this: https://laravel-news.com/microsoft-dropping-php-support

The way I read that is it’s just saying that some other team in MS is no longer going to be building/supporting/maintaining PHP (platform) binary releases going forward (PHP 8+). Someone else will pick it up, though.

As far as I know, this does not change our planned driver support for PHP 8.

[mbiebl]

@David-Engel That's great to hear!
And yes, that was the announcement I was referring to.

[Jan-E]

@David-Engel Please take a look at php/php-src#5805 (comment)
8.0.0 alpha1 and alpha2 compiled, alpha3 gave a fatal eror (Windows, VC16).

[yitam]

Thank you @Jan-E we got it. 👍

[mmokhi]

This part might also help on fixing build for PHP8.0: #1167

[yitam]

Thanks @mmokhi for your contribution! PR 1127 already took care of this issue, and since we only accept pull requests to our dev branch, that was merged to the dev branch instead.

[mmokhi]

Thanks @yitam for the clarification 😊 🙏
One question then would be, would it be possible to get a tag on that merge commit (or later if there's a better state) for those who want to track the tags instead of commit -hashes?

[yitam]

hi @mmokhi we do not tag any special commit but the dev branch is maintained to work with php 8.0 previews and contains various bug fixes.

[brainfoolong]

If someone is interested and don't want to struggle with building the extension, i've built the extension today, out of the current dev branch for Windows x64 PHP8.0.0beta1 Thread-Safe. Finally, i've never built PHP or any extension on windows before :)

php_sqlsrv.zip

[Jan-E]

With every new PHP 8.0.0 release I am building the php_sqlsrv.dll and php_pdo_sqlsrv.dll in all 4 variants: x64/x86, NTS/TS. And many more extensions. See https://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=6617