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Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:10:55 +0200
To: "Hector Santos" <hsantos@isdg.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] README.WIN32-BUILD-SYSTEM
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

hi Hector,

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> wrote:

>  Ok, then may I suggest the *.DSP/DSW project files in the PHP5+
> distribution either a) removed from the distribution, or b) updated.

Removing them sounds like the best option yes.


>  Of course, thats a subjective opinion whether they are useful or not. :-)
>
>  I use project files and I am sure if they were made available (and working)
> others will use them as well.  One reason, and not exclusively the reason,
> is that it provides the fast learning method to understand the PHP model,
> framework and more especially, the organization of this source files.

It is not really subjective, it is based on our experiences and
feedbacks from other users. It is already enough work to keep
everything up and running. Project files have no benefit over the
current script. You can still use the VC GUI to debug or develop
without them.

However, I have very good hope that our current evaluation of the
CMake tools will allow anyone to generate them using a common script
(common to all platforms or build tools). But that's another topic :)

> > As Bjori pointed out, there is also updated information in the wiki,
> > please consider to read it.
> >
>
>  Which wiki?  I found the link I noted in my previous message:

http://wiki.php.net

>    http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.building.php
>
>  and this is helping.  Is this info sufficient or is there more?
>
>  Anyway, at this moment I'm moving along and off hand, it appears the
> remaining item which is ambiguous is the LIBXML and ICONV stuff.  There is a
> note about in the above link but doesn't say much about preparation.

We are also documenting these steps in the wiki. The required
libraries are also available for each VC version (built using these
versions). There is still a lot to do but we are on the right track.
If you like to write a howto for beginners out of your experiences,
you will be more than welcome :-)

>  I don't understand why the CVS bundle folder has this as dead files, if
> they are still required for a build.

Which CVS bundle folder?

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre
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