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.

• 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.

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

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, 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.

tclsh createstack.tcl buildTarball xamppunixinstaller85stack linux-x64
tclsh createstack.tcl buildTarball xamppunixinstaller85stack osx-x64

NOTE: you can build other PHP versions (8.2.x, 8.3.x, or 8.4.x) replacing 85 with 82, 83, or 84.

The tarball needed for building the installer in the next step will be located in /bitnami/<stack_name>/output and it will have the date it was built in the filename. This file must be copied into /tmp/tarballs mounted directory to be used.

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, run the commands below to create the desired installer depending on the platform. For the Linux and OS X platforms this will require the tarball generated from tclsh createstack.tcl buildTarball for Windows this will require the Windows third party tarballs as it does not perform any compilation but packs the existing softwares and configures them.

tclsh createstack.tcl pack xamppunixinstaller85stack linux-x64
tclsh createstack.tcl pack xamppunixinstaller85stack osx-x64
tclsh createstack.tcl pack xamppinstaller85stack windows-x64

NOTE: you can pack other PHP versions (8.2.x, 8.3.x, or 8.4.x) replacing 85 with 82, 83, or 84.

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

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