This project provides actions to build PHP and its extensions on Windows.

Build PHP for a specific version, architecture and thread safety.

- name: Build PHP
  uses: php/php-windows-builder/php@v1
  with:
    php-version: '8.3.2'
    arch: x64
    ts: nts

• php-version (required) - The PHP version to build. It supports values in major.minor.patch format, e.g. 7.4.25, 8.0.12, etc.
• arch (required) - The architecture to build. It supports values x64 and x86.
• ts (required) - The thread safety to build. It supports values ts and nts.

jobs:
  php:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        arch: [x64, x86]
        ts: [nts, ts]
    runs-on: windows-2019
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Build
        uses: php/php-windows-builder/php@v1
        with:
          php-version: '8.3.2'
          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
          ts: ${{ matrix.ts }}

The above workflow will produce the following the following builds for the PHP version 8.3.2 as artifacts.

• nts-x64, nts-x64-AVX, ts-x64, nts-x86, ts-x86.
• debug-pack and devel-pack for each the above configurations.
• test pack

Build a PHP extension for a specific version.

- name: Build the extension
  uses: php/php-windows-builder/extension@v1
  with:
    extension-url: https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug
    extension-ref: '3.3.1'
    php-version: '8.3'
    ts: nts
    arch: x64
    args: --enable-xdebug
    libs: zlib

• extension-url (optional) - URL of the extension's git repository, defaults to the current repository.
• extension-ref (required) - The git reference to build the extension, defaults to the GitHub reference that triggered the workflow.
• php-version (required) - The PHP versions to build the extension for.
• arch (required) - The architecture to build the extension for.
• ts (required) - The thread safety to build the extension for.
• args (optional) - Additional arguments to pass to the configure script.
• libs (optional) - Libraries required for the extension.

Instead of having to configure all the inputs for the extension action, you can use the extension-matrix action to get the matrix of jobs with different input configurations.

jobs:
  get-extension-matrix:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Get the extension matrix
        id: extension-matrix
        uses: php/php-windows-builder/extension-matrix@v1
        with:
          extension-url: https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug
          extension-ref: '3.3.1'
          php-version-list: '8.3, 8.4'
          arch-list: 'x64, x86'
          ts-list: 'nts, ts'

• extension-url (optional) - URL of the extension's git repository, defaults to the current repository.
• extension-ref (optional) - The git reference to build the extension, defaults to the GitHub reference that triggered the workflow.
• php-version-list (optional) - The PHP versions to build the extension for. Defaults to the PHP versions required in the composer.json file.
• arch-list (optional) - The architectures to build the extension for. Defaults to x64, x86.
• ts-list (optional) - The thread safety to build the extension for. Defaults to nts, ts.
• allow-old-php-versions (optional) - Allow building the extension for older PHP versions. Defaults to false.

• matrix - The matrix of jobs with different input configurations.

By default, the extension-matrix action will use the PHP versions defined in the php-version-list input.

If the php-version-list input is not provided, it will use the PHP versions required in the composer.json file.

It will also check if a GitHub hosted Windows runner is available with the required Visual Studio version to build the extension for the PHP version. To override this for building the extension for older PHP versions, you will have to set the input allow_old_php_versions to true and add self-hosted Windows runners as specified in the table below.

Upload the artifacts to a release.

- name: Upload artifact to the release
  uses: php/php-windows-builder/release@v1
  with:
    release: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

• release (required) - The release to upload the artifacts.
• token (required) - The GitHub token to authenticate with.

name: Build extension
on:
  release:
    types: [published]
  # create: # Uncomment this to run on tag/branch creation
  # pull_request: # Uncomment this to run on pull requests  
jobs:
  get-extension-matrix:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      matrix: ${{ steps.extension-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Get the extension matrix
        id: extension-matrix
        uses: php/php-windows-builder/extension-matrix@v1
  build:
    needs: get-extension-matrix
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix: ${{fromJson(needs.get-extension-matrix.outputs.matrix)}}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build the extension
        uses: php/php-windows-builder/extension@v1
        with:
          php-version: ${{ matrix.php-version }}
          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
          ts: ${{ matrix.ts }}
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    if: ${{ github.event_name == 'release' }}
    steps:
      - name: Upload artifact to the release
        uses: php/php-windows-builder/release@v1
        with:
          release: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License