XAMPP build system

The XAMPP build system is a group of Tcl classes and procedures that allow us to automate the generation of XAMPP installers, by taking care of building, configuring and preparing the distribution of the bundled programs.

The build system lays in the src folder of the repository. Most of the Tcl files that are there only contain program classes. Under the apps and base directories, you will find the XML files describing the InstallBuilder logic steps.

Requirements

• Docker. You can check the resources into the Dockerfile if you want to run the same steps in a different host.
• Thirdparty source code tarballs. You can get those tarballs from the official websites. For simplicity you can also download from Sourceforge.

TL;DR

$ docker build . -t xampp-build
$ docker run -v `pwd`/../xampp-code:/home/xampp-code -v `pwd`/tarballs:/tmp/tarballs -it xampp-build bash

How to compile the code from source for Linux and OS X

For Unix platforms (Linux and OS X), before creating the installers, the process relays on a tarball including all the required components already compiled. The XAMPP build system is also able to compile those components for you.

You can build the XAMPP base tarballs from the src directory. You can get the source code for any of the components from the official website. For simplicity you can get them together from Sourceforge.

Once the needed files are located into a tarballs directory and mounted into the container at /tmp/tarballs, your can run the commands below to create the desired installer depending on the platform. You can use the container to compile the binaries for Linux x64 but you will need access to an OS X higher than 10.6 to compile the binaries from OS X there.

tclkit createstack.tcl buildTarball xamppunixinstaller80stack linux-x64
tclkit createstack.tcl buildTarball xamppunixinstaller80stack osx-x64

NOTE: you can build other PHP versions (7.4.x, 8.0.x, or 8.1.x) replacing 80 with 74 or 81.

Once the tarball is compressed, you can move it to the /tmp/tarball mounted directory to use it in the next step.

How to build the XAMPP installers

You can build the XAMPP installers from the src directory. The Linux and OS X platforms will require a tarball with all the binaries compiled from the previous step.

Once the needed files are located into a tarballs directory and mounted into the container at /tmp/tarballs, your can run the commands below to create the desired installer depending on the platform.

tclkit createstack.tcl pack xamppunixinstaller80stack linux-x64
tclkit createstack.tcl pack xamppunixinstaller80stack osx-x64
tclkit createstack.tcl pack xamppinstaller80stack windows-x64

NOTE: you can pack other PHP versions (7.4.x, 8.0.x, or 8.1.x) replacing 80 with 74 or 81.

The installers will be accessible at /opt/installbuilder/output/.

License

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