From: Richard Quadling on
2009/4/29 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna(a)gatewaygeomatics.com>:
>
>>
>> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.downloads.php "At this time
>> the PHP project does not compile Windows binaries for PECL extensions.
>> However, to compile PHP under Windows see the chapter titled building
>> PHP for Windows."
>>
>>
>
> Small world: that chapter "Building PHP for Windows" is exactly why I sent a
> message yesterday to the php-windows list asking where the most uptodate
> instructions are for building PHP with VC 9 on Windows (that chapter has
> broken links to the build tools, and the Wiki page,
> http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild, is incomplete). So it
> seems we're in limbo for building!
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
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> Jeff McKenna
> FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services
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>
>

It seems like this isn't going to be fixed any time soon.

220 extensions which may have version specific external libraries and
each one needing to be built at least 20 ways (VC6/9, ts/nts,
5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.0). That gives 4,400 build processes. Debug? 8,800
builds. And then more if there are different external libraries,
though I would hope that a version of a PECL extension would only run
with a single version of an external library. I don't know if the
dependencies are maintained in any easy way.

Compare that with PHP's handful of builds.



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From: Philip Olson on

> It seems like this isn't going to be fixed any time soon.
>
> 220 extensions which may have version specific external libraries and
> each one needing to be built at least 20 ways (VC6/9, ts/nts,
> 5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.0). That gives 4,400 build processes. Debug? 8,800
> builds. And then more if there are different external libraries,
> though I would hope that a version of a PECL extension would only run
> with a single version of an external library. I don't know if the
> dependencies are maintained in any easy way.
>
> Compare that with PHP's handful of builds.


DLL downloads will be offered at pecl.php.net for active PHP branches
(5_2, 5_3, 6_0).

However, this does not exist today so yesterday I removed all
references to pecl4win from the PHP manual and referred to the "build
it yourself" documentation. If the documentation is wrong/outdated
then please report a bug.

Regards,
Philip

From: Richard Quadling on
2009/4/29 Philip Olson <philip(a)roshambo.org>:
>
>> It seems like this isn't going to be fixed any time soon.
>>
>> 220 extensions which may have version specific external libraries and
>> each one needing to be built at least 20 ways (VC6/9, ts/nts,
>> 5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.0). That gives 4,400 build processes. Debug? 8,800
>> builds. And then more if there are different external libraries,
>> though I would hope that a version of a PECL extension would only run
>> with a single version of an external library. I don't know if the
>> dependencies are maintained in any easy way.
>>
>> Compare that with PHP's handful of builds.
>
>
> DLL downloads will be offered at pecl.php.net for active PHP branches (5_2,
> 5_3, 6_0).
>
> However, this does not exist today so yesterday I removed all references to
> pecl4win from the PHP manual and referred to the "build it yourself"
> documentation. If the documentation is wrong/outdated then please report a
> bug.
>
> Regards,
> Philip
>
>

Looking forward to play with the old extensions.


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"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
From: Philip Olson on

>> If the documentation is wrong/outdated then please report a bug.
>
> I notice that every time someone files a bug about the broken links
> in the "Building PHP for Windows" documentation, a PHP developer
> closes the bug and says to follow the Wiki notes instead (http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild
> ) which are unfortunately not complete...hence my confusion.

I see one such bug, are there others?

- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46021

In the very least the "Building PHP for Windows" section should not
include broken links, so, this bug has been reopened.

Regards,
Philip
From: Jeff McKenna on
Philip Olson wrote:
>
> I see one such bug, are there others?
>
> - http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46021
>

Here are some:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47008
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46259
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46069

Needless to say that the issue has been driving people crazy for a
while...someone needs to fix those links.

Thanks.

-jeff




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