PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine
PHP Manual

The PHP 5 build system

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With all the functionality and flexibility available in PHP 5, it is no surprise that it consists of several thousand files and over one million lines of source code. Equally unsurprising is the necessity of a build system to manage so much data. This section describes how to set PHP up for extension development, the layout of an extension within the PHP source tree, and how to interface your extension with the build system.


PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine
PHP Manual