Phalanger on Mono
In my free time, I’ve been trying to get Phalanger working better on top of Mono. Phalanger is a PHP implementation for the CLI and ASP.NET. It runs like a champ with the basic features on top of Mono.
One of the greatest features, and also biggest missing feature with running Phalanger on Mono, is native support for PHP extensions. The extensions in PHP are basic dynamic libraries, exposing a common set of standard C exports. In Phalanager, they have written a wonderful bridge between them, but unfortunately for me though, this bridge is written in Managed C++ (icky) and does a lot of Win32 specific things. They are also doing a lot with named pipes and running things in separate memory spaces, and worst of all, a good portion of the managed C++ code is doing Reflection.Emit. No easy way to get around this it looks like. *sigh*
