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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:41:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Modern practices ...
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 10.09.2016 at 17:09, Lester Caine wrote:

> On 10/09/16 09:32, Lester Caine wrote:
>
>> Doing some digging I've found the conversations on this back in 2011. At
>> that time the statement was made that 'php project does not provide
>> binary builds' and 'if the user can't install a compiler they should not
>> be using php'. I'll not name the source ... it was a thread on this list
>> in 2011.
> 
> I must clarify that as I was quoting from memory since I'd failed to
> bookmark the thread and apologise I over egged it ...
> 
> http://develissimo.com/forum/topic/104953/?page=5
> 
> So the correct quotes are
> "I don't consider it our job to do binary builds for people."
> 
> and
> "If people are building critical
> systems that rely on binary-only releases, they really should reconsider
> how they do things and at the very least install a compiler on their
> platform of choice and learn how to build stuff themselves."
> 
> While that sentiment is practical for Linux based systems, until
> recently it was an expensive investment to create the same environment
> on Windows? I have not yet tried to check out a build stack on Windows
> 10, but for the vast majority of PHP users it is not a practical option?

Despite the rather common myth, building PHP on Windows nowadays is not
really harder than on Linux.  Detailed instructions are available on
<https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild>.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker