Fixing Windows Archive Extraction in SPC
"The pipe has been ended" wasn't a pipe problem. It was the wrong tar program and Windows symlinks, and fixing one line of static-php-cli took three tries.
One of the first things that broke when I started building PHP on Windows with static-php-cli (SPC) wasn’t PHP at all. It was unpacking the source tarballs. libxml2, xz and a couple of others would die partway through extraction with:
