hi, On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Zouzou <internet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> devel files like what is available on linux won't happen in a near future. > > May i know the reasons why, or a pointer to a discussion that explains it? I > haven't been able to find it. > I am also wondering why a library file is being distributed in the "dev" > directory, but not the header files that go with it. Historical reasons but tons of headers are missing and are not being installed by nmake install. The 'not in a near future' means not with 5.3, or not in the next months. You don't have to build PHP everytime, do it once, then you only (re)build your extension. To build it as shared and as long as you defined the config.w32 correctly, all you have to do is '--enable-myext=shared' at configure time. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php