Building Phalcon In Windows

1. Figure out which version of PHP you are using and whether thread safety is enabled.
2. Go to http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/archives/ and download the php-devel-pack for your version and thread safety.
3. Extract the contents to the \dependencies\php\ subdirectory of this directory. You should have this directory structure now:

\win32\dependencies
\win32\dependencies\php
\win32\dependencies\php\build
\win32\dependencies\php\include
\win32\dependencies\php\lib
\win32\dependencies\php\script
\win32\dependencies\php\phpize.bat

4. Open cphalcon.sln in Visual Studio 2008
5. Select configuration that matches your thread safety
6. Build and enjoy

Updating the project when files are added or removed from /dev

In the /win32/scripts directory, there is an update-project.bat batch file that will scan the /dev directory and update cphalcon.vproj.

Building the Release configs

Do not edit the files in the /release directory. Instead edit the files in the dev directory. When you want to build the release config, run the create-release-src-files.bat batch file in /win32/scripts. That will rejoin (almost) all the files in /dev and create the files in /release.