Intructions update (#89)

- add .gitattributes to cut down the composer package size.
- Update README for instruction to install from package managers and build from source for windows.

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+.github/ export-ignore
+crt/ export-ignore
+ext/ export-ignore
+tests/ export-ignore
+dev-scripts/ export-ignore
+.clang-format export-ignore
+.clang-format-ignore export-ignore
+.gitattributes export-ignore
+.gitignore export-ignore
+.gitmodules export-ignore
+CONTRIBUTING.md export-ignore
+Makefile.frag export-ignore
+Makefile.frag.w32 export-ignore
+builder.json export-ignore
+config.m4 export-ignore
+config.w32 export-ignore
+format-check.sh export-ignore
+gen_api.php export-ignore
+gen_stub.php export-ignore
+php-win.ini export-ignore
+php.ini export-ignore

README.md

@@ -3,52 +3,73 @@
 ## Requirements
 * PHP 5.5+ on UNIX platforms, 7.2+ on Windows
 * CMake 3.x
-* GCC 4.4+, clang 3.8+ on UNIX, Visual Studio 2017 build tools on Windows
+* GCC 4.4+, clang 3.8+ on UNIX, Visual Studio build tools on Windows
 * Tests require [Composer](https://getcomposer.org)
 
-## Building on UNIX
+## Installing with Composer and PECL
+
+The package has two different package published to [composer](https://packagist.org/packages/aws/aws-crt-php) and [PECL](https://pecl.php.net/package/awscrt).
+
+On UNIX, you can get the package from package manager or build from source:
+
+```
+pecl install awscrt
+composer require aws/aws-crt-php
+```
+
+On Windows, you need to build from source as instruction written below for the native extension `php_awscrt.dll`. And, follow https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.windows.php#install.pecl.windows.loading to load extension. After that:
+
+```
+composer require aws/aws-crt-php
+```
+
+## Building from Github source
+
 ```sh
 $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/awslabs/aws-crt-php.git
 $ cd aws-crt-php
 $ phpize
 $ ./configure
-$ make && make test
+$ make
+$ ./dev-scripts/run_tests.sh
 ```
 
 ## Building on Windows
-* First, ensure that you are able to build PHP on windows via the PHP SDK (this example assumes installation of the SDK to C:\php-sdk and that you've checked out the PHP source to php-src within the build directory). The following resources are helpful to get PHP building on windows:
-    * https://github.com/microsoft/php-sdk-binary-tools
-    * https://medium.com/@erinus/how-to-build-php-on-windows-a7ad0a87862a
-    * https://medium.com/@erinus/how-to-build-php-extension-on-windows-d1667290f809
+
+### Requirements for Windows
+
+* Ensure you have the [windows PHP SDK](https://github.com/microsoft/php-sdk-binary-tools) (this example assumes installation of the SDK to C:\php-sdk and that you've checked out the PHP source to php-src within the build directory) and it works well on your machine.
+
+* Ensure you have "Development package (SDK to develop PHP extensions)" and PHP available from your system path. You can download them from https://windows.php.net/download/. You can check if they are available by running `phpize -v` and `php -v`
+
+### Instructions
+
+From Command Prompt (not powershell). The instruction is based on Visual Studio 2019 on 64bit Windows.
 
 ``` bat
-""" From VS2017 Command Prompt
-> C:\php-sdk\phpsdk-vc15-x64.bat
+> git clone --recursive https://github.com/awslabs/aws-crt-php.git
+> git clone https://github.com/microsoft/php-sdk-binary-tools.git C:\php-sdk
+> C:\php-sdk\phpsdk-vs16-x64.bat
 
 C:\php-sdk\
-$ phpsdk_buildtree php-<version>
+$ cd <your-path-to-aws-crt-php>
 
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\
-$ git clone https://github.com/php/php-src.git && cd php-src
+<your-path-to-aws-crt-php>\
+$ phpize
 
-""" This only has to be done once, the first time you set this all up
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\php-src
-$ phpsdk_deps --update --branch <php-major.minor-version>
+# --with-prefix only required when your php runtime in system path is different than the runtime you wish to use.
+<your-path-to-aws-crt-php>\
+$ configure --enable-awscrt=shared --with-prefix=<your-path-to-php-prefix>
 
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\php-src
-$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/awslabs/aws-crt-php.git ..\pecl\awscrt
-
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\php-src
-$ buildconf
-
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\php-src
-$ configure --enable-cli --with-openssl --enable-awscrt=shared
-
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\php-src
+<your-path-to-aws-crt-php>\
 $ nmake
 
-C:\php-sdk\php-<version>\vc15\x64\php-src
-$ nmake test-awscrt
+<your-path-to-aws-crt-php>\
+$ nmake generate-php-ini
+
+# check .\php-win.ini, it now has the full path to php_awscrt.dll that you can manually load to your php runtime, or you can run the following command to run tests and load the required native extension for awscrt.
+<your-path-to-aws-crt-php>\
+$ .\dev-scripts\run_tests.bat <your-path-to-php-binary>
 ```
 
 Note: for VS2017, Cmake will default to build for Win32, refer to [here](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/generator/Visual%20Studio%2015%202017.html). If you are building for x64 php, you can set environment variable as follow to let cmake pick x64 compiler.

composer.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "aws/aws-crt-php",
-    "homepage": "http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforphp",
+    "homepage": "https://github.com/awslabs/aws-crt-php",
     "description": "AWS Common Runtime for PHP",
     "keywords": ["aws","amazon","sdk","crt"],
     "type": "library",
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
             "src/"
         ]
     },
+    "suggest": {
+        "ext-awscrt": "Make sure you install awscrt native extension to use any of the functionality."
+    },
     "scripts": {
         "test": "./dev-scripts/run_tests",
         "test-extension": "@test",