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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:39:43+00:00

I’ve asked this somewhere else, but the people there don’t seem to understand what

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I’ve asked this somewhere else, but the people there don’t seem to understand what I am talking about.

When I go to the PECL website, all extensions found there are inside TGZ files.
Which is not a problem, any modern archiving program can open it.

Inside is always a .tar file and inside that are the source files.
So, what do I do with that? I’m particularly interested in using the pecl_http extension, but I’m not sure what to do.

Note: there are no DLL files inside the .TAR files. None whatsoever, not a single one. All you find is C code and C headers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If there is not .dll provided, you have to compile it 🙁

    There was a pecl4win website some time ago, but it’s down ; and the new http://windows.php.net/ does not have extensions on it yet (there is work going on, but windows is not the platform of choice for PHP developpers, nor core-developpers, so it’s not going really fast).

    You say this :

    there are no DLL files inside the .TAR
    files. None whatsoever, not a single
    one. All you find is C code and C
    headers.

    Which means you will have to compile the extension yourself 🙁 (maybe you’ll get lucky, and find a .dll somewhere that fits your version of PHP ; some extensions, like Xdebug, have those on their official website, at least for recent versions of PHP… But it’s not always the case 🙁 )

    To compile a PECL extension with windows, you can take a look at these links :

    Anyway… Good luck…

    As a sidenote : if I remember correctly, the PHP’s installer for windows has some PECL extensions bundled in ; maybe this one is one of those ?

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