I have my own PHP CLI utility, so I have a need in PHP compiler. I found nothing working with the last PHP versions, so I'm using a Phalanger now, but it's requires it installed on client mashine to run compiled scripts (!), and it's compiles files in .NET (!!). It's worth crutch I've ever seen, but it's working and have a console version (because I'm using Notepad++ for development). I don't know why only worth crutch is working) So, that I stays searching for the good console PHP compiler all time, but found nothing at this time. All what I found is extremely old. There's a list and year of last release:
There's a HipHop released by FB, but it's so monstrous to use it, and it's only looks like a virtual mashine, not compiler in fact I think. So finally I've decided to write my own compiler to work with new versions of PHP and use a native bcompiler to get a bytecode, but find out, that a bcompiler is dead too, its last release was at 2011! So can I ask you, why all PHP comilers are dead? There's no problem to find a bcompiler sourses, build a new DLL extention for PHP for Windows for example, and put the actual PHP DLL version with it, but why in times, when the amazing PHP 7 was released, there's no any (any!) lightweight and simple actual PHP compilers?
Or I don't understand something? If it so - what? Thanks a lot!
After a while looking for solution I've wrote my own compiler, which supports PHP 7.1+ (!). So my problem is solved. Thanks to everybody!
Here is it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpc/