php with readline support compiled for windows

Question

Is there any compiled php package with readline support built-in?

readline is required in order to use php in interactive mode.

I looked at how to compile php for windows but they require MS Visual Studio which I don't have.

Answer 1

Readline extension is not available on Windows. I think it is possible to compile PHP under cygwin enabling --with-readline option

Answer 2

    //The readline library is not available on Windows.

<?php
       if (PHP_OS == 'WINNT') {
           echo '$ ';
           $line = stream_get_line(STDIN, 1024, PHP_EOL);
        } else {
                 $line = readline('$ ');
               }
 ?>

I found this code straight out of the php documentation. As you may see there is no support for the readline library in windows machines (at least in a ddefault packet) which sucks but you can get something similar by doing the "$line = blah, blah " you see in the code above.

I tried it and made it work using window's standard cmd (althought I think the interactive php mode won't work in windows no matter what) but It's better than not having any user input (if you actually get to remember all that code).