Developer, System Architect, Hacker.
<p>After posting how I compiled <a href="/blog/2021-08-11-php-compiling-ext/">Xdebug PHP extension on Windows</a> I got an interesting comment how I can improve the process.</p>
<p>Derick was nice enough to <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/627">point</a> <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/628">out</a> that the soon-to-be-released PHP 8.1 and Xdebug 3.1.0 will need some protocol level adjustments. Since I develop on Windows, building PHP or Xdebug from source isn’t something I did recently. Lets see what we need to do.</p>
<p>This is a small writeup on the May 2021 release of VSCode PHP Debug adapter extension. A cover issue describing all work can be found on <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/575">GitHub issues</a>.</p>
<p>I am passionate about debugging and debuggers since, well, forever. When I started working with PHP many many years ago this was the one thing that truly bothered me - there was no “native” way to debug the code interactively. Then I discovered Xdebug.</p>
