Re: Quick Q.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > On 24 July 2013 21:54, Matijn Woudt <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> PHP 5.5+ is (from news) >>> >>> - Windows XP and 2003 support dropped. >>> >>> >>> Does that mean no longer executes (as is seemingly what I'm seeing) or >>> just >>> no longer supported/developed? >>> >>> Just going to look into getting to the bottom of the CHM build issues and >>> only have an XP license of Windows. >>> >>> Will drop back to PHP 5.4 to see if that's OK on the VM I have. >>> >>> >>> Hi, >> >> It is only no longer supported/developed. It probably will compile fine >> on it for a long time, though some new features might not. It probably also >> means they are not going to test on XP/2003 anymore, and will not respond >> to bugs related to these operating systems. >> >> - Matijn >> >> > From what I can see, PHP V5.5.1 (just downloaded onto a clean VM) fails to > execute. But V5.4.17 works fine. > > -- > Richard Quadling > Twitter : @RQuadling > The precompiled version indeed does not work on XP/2003, but I think you can still compile it yourself for windows XP. - Matijn