PHP binaries & PHP build scripts for PocketMine-MP

Prebuilt binaries

Actively updated "latest" URLs

• PM5 default
• PM5 PHP 8.2 (default for PM 5.10+)
• PM5 PHP 8.3 (not officially supported, but works in PM 5.9+)
• PM5 PHP 8.4 (not officially supported, but works in PM 5.33+)

Legacy binaries, no longer updated

• PM4 PHP 8.0 (default for PM 4.0+)
• PM4 PHP 8.1 (default for PM 4.21+)
• PM4 PHP 8.2 (never officially supported, but works in PM 4.12+)
• PM5 PHP 8.0 (default for PM 5.0 alpha)
• PM5 PHP 8.1 (default for PM 5.0+)

compile.sh

Bash script used to compile PHP on MacOS and Linux platforms. Make sure you have make autoconf automake libtool m4 wget getconf gzip bzip2 bison g++ git cmake pkg-config re2c ca-certificates.

Recommendations

• If you're going to use the compiled binary only on the machine you're build it on, remove the -t option for best performance - this will allow the script to optimize for the current machine rather than a generic one.
• ext-gd2 is NOT included unless the -g flag is provided, as PocketMine-MP doesn't need it. However, if your plugins need it, don't forget to enable it using -g.
• The -c and -l options can be used to specify cache folders to speed up recompiling if you're recompiling many times (e.g. to improve the script).

Common pitfalls

• Avoid using the script in directory trees containing spaces. Some libraries don't like trying to be built in directory trees containing spaces, e.g. /home/user/my folder/pocketmine-mp/ might experience problems.
• Avoid directory trees containing special (non-English) symbols. For example, Développement might cause issues.

Additional notes

Mac OSX (native compile)

• Most dependencies can be installed using Homebrew
• You will additionally need glibtool (GNU libtool, xcode libtool won't work)

Android 64-bit (cross-compile)

• Only aarch64 targets are supported for Android cross-compile.
• The aarch64-linux-musl toolchain is required. You can compile and install it using https://github.com/pmmp/musl-cross-make (PMMP fork includes musl-libc patches for DNS resolver config path and increasing stack size limit for LevelDB)

Script flags	Description
-c	Uses the folder specified for caching downloaded tarballs, zipballs etc.
-d	Compiles with debugging symbols and disables optimizations (slow, but useful for debugging segfaults)
-D	Compiles with separated debugging symbols, but leaves optimizations enabled (used for distributed binaries)
-g	Will compile GD2
-j	Set make threads to #
-l	Uses the folder specified for caching compilation artifacts (useful for rapid rebuild and testing)
-n	Don't remove sources after completing compilation
-s	Will compile everything statically
-t	Set target
-v	Enable Valgrind support in PHP
-x	Specifies we are doing cross-compile
-P	Set target to the specified major PocketMine-MP version specified (currently only 5 is supported)
-z	PHP version to build, e.g 8.2 (optional, if not specified, will be auto-selected by PM version)

Example:

Target	Arguments
linux64	-t linux64 -j4 -P5
linux64, PM4	-t linux64 -j4 -P4
mac64	-t mac-x86-64 -j4 -P5
android-aarch64	-t android-aarch64 -x -j4 -P5

windows-compile-vs.ps1

Uses Visual Studio toolsets to compile PHP binaries on Windows. You need to install git, cmake and Visual Studio 2019 to use this script.

This script doesn't accept parameters, but the following environment variables are influential:

Variable	Description
PHP_DEBUG_BUILD	Disables optimisations and builds PHP with detailed debugging information (useful for debugging segfaults)
SOURCES_PATH	Where to put the downloaded sources for compilation
PM_VERSION_MAJOR	Major version of PocketMine-MP to build for (currently only 5 is supported)
PHP_VERSION_BASE	PHP version to build, e.g 8.2 (optional, if not specified, will be auto-selected by PM version)
PHP_JIT_SUPPORT	Whether to compile with OPcache JIT, set to 1 for yes

For developers: Version info sources

Libraries

Link to package	Needed for	Notes
zlib	Compression
gmp	Big integer math for Bedrock packet encryption	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
curl	Web requests
libyaml	Parsing YAML config files
leveldb	Bedrock world support	Custom version based on google/leveldb with minimum required changes to support MCPE worlds
libxml	XML parsing support for UPnP	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
libpng	php-gd, plugin use only	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
libjpeg	php-gd, plugin use only	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
openssl	Bedrock packet encryption, secure web requests
libzip	Resource packs
sqlite3	Plugin use only	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages
libdeflate	Faster alternative to zlib for network use
pthreads4w	Needed by ext-pmmpthread on Windows	Hosted at DependencyMirror to avoid service outages

PHP & extensions

Link to package	Needed for	Notes
PHP	Everything	Replace 8.2 in the URL with your chosen version
pmmpthread	PHP threading
yaml	YAML config parsing	Yes, the mix of - and _ is intentional. Don't ask me.
leveldb	Bedrock world support	Custom version to provide LEVELDB_ZLIB_RAW_COMPRESSION support
chunkutils2	PalettedBlockArray and other low-level stuff
xdebug	Debugging	Not needed for production
igbinary	Faster serialization, mostly for moving stuff between threads	Non-essential, could be ditched if necessary
crypto	Bedrock packet encryption
recursionguard	Debugging	Not needed for production
libdeflate	Faster network compression	Non-essential but provides significant performance advantage over zlib
morton	Packing X/Z and X/Y/Z coordinates into ints in a format suitable for PHP array keys	Needed for performance
xxhash	Not currently used	Could be replaced by hash() in recent versions of PHP but this extension has much better performance
arraydebug	Debugging array hash collisions
encoding	Not currently used	Experimental, intended to replace BinaryUtils but never finished

Misc

Link to package	Needed for	Notes
php-sdk-binary-tools	Building PHP on Windows