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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Modern practices ...
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 10.09.2016 at 23:45, Lester Caine wrote:

> On 10/09/16 16:41, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>
>> 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>.
> 
> http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/Compile+PHP7+Build+on+Windows+10

Wrt. concrete build problems, I suggest asking on an appropriate mailing
list or support forum, such as php-windows@lists.php.net.

> But while the licensing is fairly loose for individual developers, I
> doubt that any government IT department could get passed the
> 'enterprise' restrictions on use ... which was the block on earlier
> options for building windows versions as well.

The licensing of Visual Studio doesn't appear to be a PHP issue.

Support for other toolchains may be added; patches are welcome! :-)

-- 
Christoph M. Becker