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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:40:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Build failed on Windows
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 23:16 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote:
> Also a clear understanding of exactly what MS compiler must be used.
> Will the free MS VC++ 2005 Express Edition be suitable?

Quoting the documentation:
| Since PHP 5 the free Microsoft .NET toolchain is also supported (you
| need to install Windows Platform SDK, Visual C++ Toolkit and .NET
| Framework SDK).
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.building.php>

I think the express Edition includes these so it should work. Last
problems I heared where that the free stuff didn'T include nmake.exe but
I think meanwhile nmake.exe is available with the free stuff, too but I
never looked into that free stuff. If you just want to test patches and
stuff and are not interested in running a *nix system (at least inside
some kind of virtual machine/vmware/colinux like manner) you can still
use cygwin for building PHP.

To the original poster: Do you really need PHP 4? - The build system
introduced with PHP 5 make life way simpler - and PHP 4 is from the
stone-age...

johannes