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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 64bit Windows builds
From: wrowe@rowe-clan.net ("William A. Rowe Jr.")

On 1/18/2012 12:14 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
>> On 1/18/2012 6:13 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
>>> >
>>> >  A much better reason for not supporting the build is probably that the 64bit
>>> compiler is
>>> >  not available in the free development stack? We have to buy a development stack to
>>> get the
>>> >  64bit compiler which blocks rather than working with the publicly available process:(
>>> >  But actually that is a better reason for supplying a 64 bit build, and why others are
>>> >  providing that service.
>> Actually, no.  There are any number of free mechanisms to build 64 bit code.
> Could you elaborate on that?
> Building 64bit windows applications which are VC9 compliant would seem to need the
> 'official' compiler, and while I have not done a lot of looking, there was nothing being
> offered when I tried to set up the windows build environment form Pierre's original notes
> although that was some time ago. I ended up buying an M$ development pack to plug the hole.

The SDK and DDK remain free with a minimal toolchain, including 64 bit
compilers.  Of course they aren't called that anymore, because things
are only fun in the Windows world when they overhaul the glossary of
terms every 3 years.

You probably started with Express edition of Visual Studio, and I note
that it claims not to support 64 bit.  But the compilers in the SDK or WDK
(Windows Drivers Kit formerly DDK) should solve your issue.  I don't know
offhand whether these contain visual studio 15 or 16.