Re: building php4 on windows && what's up with libmysql?

Jim, I can't answer if cygwin is really necessary but it's quite useful (especially for those that are used to unix style commands). For one it contains things like tar and gzip which were necessary at one point to extract number.tar.gz as well as the PHP source snapshots (although most Win unzip utilities can do the job also). Maybe Sam Ruby, who I believe wrote the original set of instructions, can chime in here. Speaking of which, I tried to build with the latest CVS and I keep getting the following link errors. I guess I can open a bug report but just curious if anyone knows off hand what happened. --------------------Configuration: php4dllts - Win32 Release_TSDbg-------------------- Linking... Creating library ..\Release_TSDbg/php4ts.lib and object ..\Release_TSDbg/php4ts.exp string.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _add_index_zval string.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _add_assoc_zval_ex libmysql.lib(my_thr_init.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _win_pthread_init libmysql.lib(my_compress.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _compress libmysql.lib(my_compress.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _uncompress ..\Release_TSDbg\php4ts.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 5 unresolved externals Error executing link.exe. Alex