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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:13 +0200
To: "Steph Fox" <steph@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Broken Windows build
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

hi,

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Steph Fox <steph@php.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last week PHP_5_3 out of CVS built on my box under VC6; today it does not.
>
> I have been told on irc (thanks Liz)

It has been like that since literally years. Nothing new under the sun.

> that there is no intention of fixing
> the breakage because 'the 2003 SDK has been a requirement since PHP 5.1'.
> This is the first I ever heard of any such requirement - everything has
> 'just worked' until now with standard out-of-the-box VC6, with or without
> SP* applied.

Service Packs are another story, they have absolutely nothing to do
with the platform SDK. The snaps box does not use the SP6 but will do
it for 5.3+. It does not have impact like binary incompatibilities or
similar bad effects. However the platform SDK 2003/02 is required.

> Can someone please either explain the need to break a working build system
> just before a PHP release or else revert whatever changes caused the
> breakage?

What you may have missed is the minimum windows version. It has been
bumped to 2k/xp a few months ago. What may have happened is the fixes
in TSRM and Zend to do not override this setting. They both use now
the main php setting and it will be settable using configure before
alpha2 (but it will not work for win9x anyway as some APIs were not
available).

The short version is: there is nothing to revert, the snap box works
and you may simply download the right SDK from (I would say, you
should download it if you really want to do the same bins than snaps):

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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