We need porters, packagers and maintainers

Now that phc has a plugin architecture, it is no longer necessary for users to integrate their source with it. As a result, it is much more useful to package phc and integrate it within various distributions' package management systems. If you are interested in packaging phc for your favourite OS, please contact us.

Currently, phc runs on x86 Linux, and is mostly tested using Ubuntu. If you have access to other machines, architectures or operating systems, and would be willing to test phc on it, please contact us.

Packaging hints

Do not strip the binaries. Since the plugins use dlopen(), and link dynamically against the phc binary, the plugins will not work unless the symbol information is available.

Test suite

phc is shipped with its tests, which can be run after compilation:

make test

You can also add your own code to test/subjects/3rdparty, and test it by running:

make long-test

to run the entire suite. Note that many tests still fail. Please submit the results to us on the mailing list.

phc packages

See the downloads page for existing packages. In addition, we're looking for people to create and/or maintain packages for more systems, including Debian/Ubuntu (especially Debian/Ubuntu), Gentoo, Slackware, Darwin and Solaris.