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Dave Kimble
Asked: 2020-10-01 19:18:33 +0800 CST

Is php-gtk still alive?

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I am on Ubuntu 20.04 and PHP 7.4.3 .
I want to try using php-gtk, but I am finding it very confusing.

  • Is the project still alive?
  • What are the prerequisites - can they really mean PHP-5.1 or 5.2 (EOL 6 Jan 2011)?
  • Does "or later" include PHP 7.4?

I have downloaded and unzipped the sources into /php-gtk-src-master. It contains a buildconf script, but this fails with "no phpize". Somehow I installed phpize, but then buildconf says:

make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'configure.in', needed by 'aclocal.m4'.  Stop.  
make: *** [build2/build.mk:12: all] Error 2

I have used wxPHP, but this died after PHP 5.6. It was restarted with PHP_7 last year, but the developer disappeared without doing any documentation, and is effectively dead again.

I have looked at QT 5.15, but my request for support died after a few emails.

I need a script to follow that works starting from a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 .

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2 Answers

  1. The php-gtk seems to be dead.

    But you can try to use modern one, it is called php-gtk3. You have to consult with the documentation from GitHub repo.

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  2. I had got exactly the same error trying to run buildconf --with-phpize=/opt/php74/bin/phpize in php-gtk-src-master folder.

    Separately, I have XAMPP for Linux 7.1.26 - installed in default directory /opt/lampp.

    Hence when I run the phpize command from the xampp (buildconf --with-phpize=/opt/lampp/bin/phpize), it generates all files without any error. Make sure autoconf is installed already.

    Try and check with php-version 7.1.26

    OS: fedora33

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