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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] APC doesn't work on Windows?
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> I don't really care either way, but if it's a well known fact, might as
> well stop trying. Does APC work on Windows? I recently submitted a patch
>  to fix the snaps.php.net compilation of APC, but for any non-trivial
> script (interestingly enough, apc.php and and phpinfo() work fine), APC
> segfaults or otherwise fatally errors. Some errors I've seen include:
> 
> [apc-error] Cannot redeclare class simpletest, referer: http://localhost/
> 
> on code that works perfectly without APC. I've scanned the bug list and
> there are quite a few reports of APC not working on Windows--so, is this
> generally known to be the case?

We don't have any active developers contributing to APC on Windows at 
the moment.  We try to not do stuff that will break Windows, but beyond 
that we rely on people interested in that platform to step up and help out.

-Rasmus