scons runs a minimal unit test, which errors. debugging typemaps commences.

src/bindings/php/SConscript

 # -*- python -*-
-Import('env')
+import os.path
+Import('env libhammer_shared')
 
 phpenv = env.Clone(IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES = 0)
 
@@ -14,3 +15,9 @@ phpenv.Command("hammer.i", "../swig/hammer.i", Copy("$TARGET", "$SOURCE"))
 swig = ['hammer.i']
 
 libhammer_php = phpenv.SharedLibrary('hammer', swig)
+
+phptestenv = phpenv.Clone()
+phptestenv['ENV']['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = os.path.dirname(str(libhammer_shared[0]))
+phptestenv.Command(None, ['TestHammer.php', libhammer_php], "phpunit $SOURCE")
+
+Clean('.', ['hammer.php', 'TestHammer.php'])

src/bindings/php/TestHammer.php

+<?php
+
+require("hammer.php");
+
+class TestHammer extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase 
+{
+    protected $parser;
+
+    protected function setUp() 
+    {
+        $this->parser = hammer::h_token("95\xa2", 3);
+    }
+    public function testSuccess() 
+    {
+        $result = hammer::h_parse($this->parser, "95\xa2", 3);
+        $this->assertEquals($result->ast->token_data->bytes, "95\xa2");
+    }     
+    public function testFailure()
+    {
+        $result = hammer::h_parse($this->parser, "95", 2);
+        $this->assertEquals($result, NULL);
+    }
+}
+?>
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