php8.4 + phalcon = undefined symbol: php_strtoupper

[olaulau]

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• I have read Frequently Asked Questions
• I have looked at the list of the existing issues (including closed issues) and searched if my issue has been already reported
• I have tried to resolve the issue myself and will describe what I did in clear and concise manner

Describe the bug
tried to install phalcon package for php 8.4, then I got this when running php8.4 :

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'phalcon.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so (/usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so: undefined symbol: php_strtoupper), /usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so.so (/usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0

To Reproduce
sudo apt install php8.4-phalcon
php8.4 -v

Your understanding of what is happening
as phalcon works with other versions of php, maybe a typo ( php_strtoupper ) in a 8.4 specific code ?

What steps did you take to resolve issue yourself before reporting it here

• checked if there was warning for phalcon on other PHP versions : no
• tried to find if module was correctly present in expected path (/usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so) : yes
• tried to find if module conf file was correct : yes
• tried on another platform (debian 12 netinst amd64) : same problem

Expected behavior
no PHP warning, and phalcon working

Distribution (please complete the following information):

• OS: ubuntu 24.10
• Architecture: amd64
• Repository: Ubuntu PPA

Package(s) (please complete the following information):

php8.4-phalcon:
Installé : 5.8.0-6+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
Candidat : 5.8.0-6+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
Table de version :
*** 5.8.0-6+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Additional context
nothing special.

[jyyan]

i got the same issue in php8.4
but php8.3 can work!

• OS: ubuntu 20.04
• Architecture: amd64
• Repository: Ubuntu PPA

# php & phalcon package version

$ apt-cache policy php8.4
php8.4:
  Installed: 8.4.3-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 8.4.3-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 8.4.3-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy php8.4-phalcon 
php8.4-phalcon:
  Installed: 5.8.0-6+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 5.8.0-6+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 5.8.0-6+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy php8.3
php8.3:
  Installed: 8.3.16-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 8.3.16-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 8.3.16-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy php8.3-phalcon
php8.3-phalcon:
  Installed: 5.8.0-6+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 5.8.0-6+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 5.8.0-6+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

phpinfo

$ php8.4 -i | grep phalcon
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'phalcon.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so (/usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so: undefined symbol: php_strtoupper), /usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so.so (/usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
52:/etc/php/8.4/cli/conf.d/35-phalcon.ini

# tried to find if module was correctly present in expected path 
$ ls -l /usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7518472 Oct  7 17:07 /usr/lib/php/20240924/phalcon.so

$ php8.3 -i | grep phalcon
52:/etc/php/8.3/cli/conf.d/35-phalcon.ini
522:phalcon
525:Phalcon is a full stack PHP framework, delivered as a PHP extension, offering lower resource consumption and high performance.
526:phalcon => enabled
527:Author => Phalcon Team and contributors
533:phalcon.db.escape_identifiers => On => On
534:phalcon.db.force_casting => Off => Off
535:phalcon.form.strict_entity_property_check => Off => Off
536:phalcon.orm.case_insensitive_column_map => Off => Off
537:phalcon.orm.cast_last_insert_id_to_int => Off => Off
538:phalcon.orm.cast_on_hydrate => Off => Off
539:phalcon.orm.column_renaming => On => On
540:phalcon.orm.disable_assign_setters => Off => Off
541:phalcon.orm.dynamic_update => On => On
542:phalcon.orm.enable_implicit_joins => On => On
543:phalcon.orm.enable_literals => On => On
544:phalcon.orm.events => On => On
545:phalcon.orm.exception_on_failed_metadata_save => On => On
546:phalcon.orm.exception_on_failed_save => Off => Off
547:phalcon.orm.ignore_unknown_columns => Off => Off
548:phalcon.orm.late_state_binding => Off => Off
549:phalcon.orm.not_null_validations => On => On
550:phalcon.orm.resultset_prefetch_records => 0 => 0
551:phalcon.orm.update_snapshot_on_save => On => On
552:phalcon.orm.virtual_foreign_keys => On => On
553:phalcon.warning.enable => On => On

EDIT:

just find out
#remicollet/remirepo#281
#phalcon/cphalcon#16671
"Blocked by #zephir-lang/zephir#2440 "

the PR "Add support for PHP8.4" #phalcon/cphalcon#16688
still in Draft status