Niel Archer wrote: >> Now that VC9 is the official MS compiler version, you still have TS vs >> NTS. You also need HEAD/PHP53/PHP52. So for the current 227 extensions >> in pecl, that results in a 1,362 builds. Now, if other compilers ARE >> needed (older Apache must have VC6), then that double to 2,724. Oh. I >> forgot x64, so 5,448 builds. > > What do you mean "older Apache must have VC6"? When did they change > that, and where is the info to be found? > I've been waiting for an official notice from Apache that they have > changed the version, so that I can put PHP 5.3 on my dev box. As it is, > I see no mention on the site to say what the binaries are built with, > only that VC6 or later is required to compile yourself. Nothing has changed, only how the windows builds of PHP are now 'managed' ... http://windows.php.net/download/ left hand column. Anything that is included now in a PHP windows build has to have been built with the same version of VC, so many third party extensions are no longer available to windows users. This purely relates to php, and while the basic reason behind it does have a little sense, nothing has changed between PHP5.2 and PHP5.3 that would actually prevent properly configured import libraries using dissimilar versions of VC from being used - it is only the php windows build team that have decided that this is not allowed, and that all new windows builds require everything that php links to is build using VC9. Third party builds of both Apache and PHP are available for x64 versions of windows for example and these do not follow the same over zealous restrictions .... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
