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Subject: --with-ereg
From: hsantos@isdg.net (Hector Santos)

Folks,

 From the example build at:

    http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.building.php

where it shows the options for a minimal build:

   --disable-all
   --enable-cli
   --enable-cgi
   --enable-object-out-dir=.
   --disable-ipv6.

I've been using this to test basic quick/basic building and it works 
fine for PHP 5.2.

For PHP 5.3,  you get browscap.obj linking errors.   I don't understand 
what ereg does, but I found I had to add the option:

   --with-ereg

After buildconf.bat and running configure.js wit the options, and deleting

     del release_ts\ext\standard\brows*.*
     rd release_ts\ext\ereg /q /s

and it will make and create fine. (BTW, this was a x64 vc8 minimal build).

Is this option a new required minimal build option that should be forced?

Again, i don't know what this ereg stuff does so I can't tell the 
importance of it or how to fix it, other than adding the above switch.

Thanks

-- 
Hector Santos