[Pre-Release] WinCache for PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.4alpha1

Question

User409000176 posted

I would greatly appreciate your help in validating a potential release candidate of WinCache for PHP 7.3:

 

x86: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/development/wincache-2.0.0.8-dev-7.3-nts-vc15-x86.exe  

x64: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/development/wincache-2.0.0.8-dev-7.3-nts-vc15-x64.exe  

 

I have simply dealt with the compilation errors introduced by moving to PHP 7.3 / Zend 3.3.0 internals.  There have been no functional changes.

 

I have run the PHP regression test suite with WinCache enabled and disabled, and nothing crashes instantly.  If you do find a reproduceable crash, please send me a code example that triggers the crash, so I can investigate.

If no issues are reported with this build, I will proceed with releasing this extension via Web Platform Installer by June 28th, 2019.

 

 

Additionally, I have a release candidate of WinCache for PHP 7.4.0alpha1:

 

x86: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/development/wincache-2.0.0.8-dev-7.4.0alpha1-nts-vs16-x86.exe

x64: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/development/wincache-2.0.0.8-dev-7.4.0alpha1-nts-vs16-x64.exe

 

Same deal goes for these bits as well.  If you find something, let me know. 

 

I will not create a Web Platform Installer package for WinCache for PHP 7.4 until PHP 7.4 completes its Beta cycle and is released.

 

My apologies for the delay in WinCache for PHP 7.3.

 

Thank you!

    --E.

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Edit: If you downloaded the 7.4apha1 WinCache bits before 2019-06-17 23:00 UTC, and you're getting an error like:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Can't load module 'C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.4\ext\php_wincache.dll' as it's linked with 14.21, but the core is linked with 14.20 in Unknown on line 0

This has been fixed with a new package.  The file name and version is the same, so you'll have to re-download & extract.

Thank you to Jan Ehrhardt over at  www.apachelounge.com for pointing this out!

Answer 1

User-1869701357 posted

Thank you for your work!! Downloading now

Answer 2

User-76435249 posted

Thank You, I will start test  WinCache for PHP 7.3 now

Answer 3

User-645267581 posted

Great news, thank you

Answer 4

User1924036252 posted

I've used in (after a short local test on my machine) for 14 hours now on our production server (uses the session-cache and lots of user-cache, plus the usual file-cache and resolve-cache) and zero problems so far. Everything looks healthy etc. Great job!

Answer 5

User-1165664085 posted

Thank you!

I've been using it under light/development load for the past week, without issues.

Answer 6

User1192847870 posted

Excellent work! I did the WinCache installation and run a couple of tests. No problems found!

Answer 7

User1726606273 posted

Hello,

where should I add this line in php.ini

extension = php_wincache.dll

Last lines in php.ini are 

[PHP_MBSTRING]
extension=php_mbstring.dll
[PHP_OPENSSL]
extension=php_openssl.dll
[PHP_SOAP]
extension=php_soap.dll
[PHP_XMLRPC]
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll

I guess  "extension = php_wincache.dll" shouldn't belong to "[PHP_XMLRPC]"?

thank you for any suggestion 

Answer 8

User409000176 posted

You can put it anywhere.  In the default .ini files (the php.ini-production and php.ini-developement), all the extension=* directives are grouped together.  Just add it to the end of that list.

As far as I know, the '[<block>]' entries are purely advisory, and don't really affect things.  I'm guessing it's probably used by some .ini aware text editors, but most people use (notepad/vi/vim/emacs/text-editor-of-your-choice).

Thx!

    --E.

Answer 9

User409000176 posted

FYI: The public Web Platform Installer feed has been updated, and WinCache for PHP 7.3 is now available via webpicmd.

Thx!

    --E.

Answer 10

User1726606273 posted

Hi,
I have tried to download it via Web Platform Installer.

It automatically installs also PHP 7.3.1 even I'm using newer version 7.3.6.

Why is PHP 7.3.6 missing in Web Installer?
I assume that WinCache is also compatible with php 7.3.6?
thnx
S

Answer 11

User409000176 posted

I assume that WinCache is also compatible with php 7.3.6?

Yes, it's compiled for all 7.3 versions.

Why is PHP 7.3.6 missing in Web Installer?

I'm not entirely sure.  I'll ask the WebPI feed folks who owns updating the PHP builds.

Thx!

    --E.

Answer 12

User413363883 posted

The most recent version I see in WPI GUI and with the commandline  is from 7/5/2018 for PHP 7.2.  As a matter of fact I see nothing related to PHP 7.3 at all for Server 2016 including PHP itself.   

Answer 13

User-1165664085 posted

The "official" WinCache site has yet to be updated:

IIS.net Downloads Link

for people who manage their system without the WebPI.

(PS: I actually had tried to get wepipcmd last month, but never succeeded to download the build that way.)

And as mentioned elsehwere - the entire WebPI seems frozen in time since last year, so that's not really a suitable/reliable distribution option:

Answer 14

User-1196489288 posted

It seems that the latest PHP version of 7.3.8 does NOT work with 2.0.0.8 version of WinCache. I've tried many different things and nothing works. 7.2.21 with WinCache for 7.2.X works just fine but PHP 7.3.8 with WinCache 7.3.X (IE 2.0.0.8) does NOT work. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Using X64 and VC15.

Answer 15

User-1165664085 posted

I've been running Winache 2.0.0.8 with 7.3 since that Wincache build came out, and also with 7.3.8 since THAT became available.

My IIS is running PHP VC15 x64 NTS (Non-Thread-Safe)

Answer 16

User-1196489288 posted

Actually I got it working. Totally my fault. Turns out I obviously was doing something wrong. Not sure what. I cleared out everything and tried again after Anamera said it worked and got it working. Sorry again for the post and thank you again for keeping WinCache update to date with the latest versions of PHP!

Answer 17

User-765608463 posted

Thanks for all your efforts with this, any timeline on the PHP 7.4 compatible version now its been released?

Answer 18

User-1834464154 posted

Hi and thank you for your work.

I have installed wincache 7.4 alpha x64 on IIS 10.

The "PHP Administrator" sees it as "Enabled", but when I launch phpinfo() wincache doesn't shows up.

Is there an alternative way to check if it's working?

Thank you

Answer 19

User1196255425 posted

I also installed WinCache 2.0.0.8 x64 alpha1 for PHP 7.4 and I can confirm that it is not loaded.

When I check loaded extensions with

php -r "print_r(get_loaded_extensions());"

it tells me:

php.exe - Entry Point Not Found
---------------------------
The procedure entry point php_error_docref0 could not be located in the dynamic link library ***pathtophp74***\ext\php_wincache.dll.

Answer 20

User-2136121807 posted

Any update for 7.4 now that it's released? The 7.4.0alpha1 dlls don't load. 

Answer 21

User-1045777560 posted

Hi there,

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/development/wincache-2.0.0.8-dev-7.4.0alpha1-nts-vs16-x64.exe

Running Server 2016 IIS 10 and PHP 7.4.1 x64 and when I try and load WinCache (looking in php-cgi.exe) I get the following error:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_wincache.dll' (tried: c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext\php_wincache.dll (The specified procedure could not be found.), c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext\php_php_wincache.dll.dll (The specified procedure could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_wincache.dll' (tried: c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext\php_wincache.dll (The specified procedure could not be found.), c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext\php_php_wincache.dll.dll (The specified procedure could not be found.)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />

I noticed the 2nd message filename doesnt look right, extra php & dll in the name. I tried taking a copy of the php_wincache.dll file and naming it to php_php_wincache.dll.dll and having the 2 files there but that made no difference.  I even made sure the files were present by verifying the paths in PowerShell.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-Item -Path "c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext\php_wincache.dll"

Directory: C:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 17/06/2019 16:47 138240 php_wincache.dll

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-Item -Path "c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext\php_php_wincache.dll.dll"

Directory: C:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 17/06/2019 16:47 138240 php_php_wincache.dll.dll

I tried to register the dll manually

c:\Program Files\PHP 7.4.1 x64\ext>regsvr32 php_wincache.dll

But got the following error:

The module "php_wincache.dll" failed to load.

Answer 22

User-1196489288 posted

As other users have mentioned WinCache for PHP 7.4.1 does not load. The error in the PHP log file is "The specified procedure could not be found.". Any update on when this will be fixed?

Answer 23

User-2136121807 posted

Any updates? 7.4.1 is released now and no updates at all. 

Answer 24

User-2135643004 posted

I'm also missing WinCache compatibility with PHP 7.4.1 nts.

The problem could be related to this statement (from windows.php.net):

We used Visual Studio 2019 to build the early releases of PHP 7.4 (up to and including 7.4.0beta2). And although Visual Studio 2019 is generally an improvement over Visual Studio 2017, due to compatibility issues we have decided to switch back to Visual Studio 2017 for our PHP 7.4 builds, and we are planning to stick with this for the complete lifetime of PHP 7.4.

It could definitely be the root of the problem - it was compiled with another Visual Studio. Could anyone try to just recompile?

Thank you.

Answer 25

User-1196489288 posted

WinCache has been updated for PHP 7.4.1. Please download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/. At this time I'm showing no errors.

Answer 26

User1196255425 posted

ryankekos

WinCache has been updated for PHP 7.4.1. Please download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/. At this time I'm showing no errors.

I can confirm that this update is working as expected. WinCache is now correctly loaded.

Thank you for the update!

Answer 27

User-1165664085 posted

Thanks - confirmed working with PHP 7.4.2.

Answer 28

User1640174264 posted

Any idea when the Web Platform Installer version will be released for PHP 7.4 x64? In WPI, it is published but the link is wrong, as the file does not exist - https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/wincache-2.0.0/wincachewpi-2.0.0.8-7.4-nts-vc15-x64.exe/download

Answer 29

User-1170642558 posted

Getting a crash (access violation) caused by 2.0.0.8 version of php_wincache.dll when running on PHP 7.3.7.

More detail is here in my post.

https://forums.iis.net/p/1250936/2161507.aspx?IIS+10+and+Wordpress+getting+crashes

Let me know if you need any more info.