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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:31:07 +0200
To: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Development environment
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

hi Lester,

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Positive actions ...

Great :-)

> I've looked at the compiling on windows page
> http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.building.php and it looks like
> I have the option to avoid M$ tools and build for windows using cygwin?

Sorry but cygwin build is not supported.

> My current development framework on both Windows and Linux is Eclipse, and
> even my BuilderC++ code is managed through this, as well as all of my PHP,
> JS and every other file format.

You need VC++ and the platform SDK. Both can be installed without
affecting any other softwares (be Borland, Eclipse or ICC). You can
even have different versions of VC++ or different SDK installed
without any problem. I have VC6/7/8/9 and two SDK installed on my
windows development box.

> In the past I have had no problems compiling my own builds of PHP on Linux,
> and I have the code tree of the bits I want to play with set up in Eclipse
> although I have not attempted to compile via that route.
>
> Simple question - is anybody actually using Eclipse to manage their
> development work, and more important doing so to build windows binaries?

It is not possible yet. It could be possible with CMake but that's
another story.

> Failing that building PHP via cygwin on the command line in Windows?

> I would rather not get involved with Visual C++ even if it is free to
> download now, I have enough trouble managing three configurations of Builder
> 5 and 6 C++ and last time I downloaded an M$ SDK update it trashed the
> Borland versions :(

Installing VC++ should not affect your Borland setup. You can even
install the MS tools without setting the ENVs globally (include,
etc.). There is more infos and updated libraries available in our wiki
(see the link in our previous mails).

Feel free to ask us any other questions, we will happily help you to
work on the interbase extension!

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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