Re: win32 attempts

Hi Steph, > Frank, I'm confused - I started working on it because I thought you didn't > have time to do this? But I'll probably be glad when you do :) I haven't > had access to a full dev environment for most of the past year, it's like > starting over. If everything works out as I plan I'll get more time in a couple of weeks. i'm putting some finishing touches on a new PHP5 book and an article for PHP Magazine. > FWIW, I don't see any point in compiling PHP-GTK under Cygwin either - as > you said, it'd mean using a Cygwin runtime environment rather than native > win32 .dlls... pretty pointless given the nature of the beast. At present > the only 'extras' we need are those we needed for PHP-GTK 1 compilation > anyway, y'know, sed and grep, and then only for pre-compile src file > generation. These are only needed for compilation and not for rge precompiled runtime. We might want to provide these files as an extra download so the extension can be compiled without extra tools. - Frank > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank M. Kromann" <frank@kromann.info> > To: "Markus Fischer" <markus@fischer.name> > Cc: "PHP-GTK dev" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 5:08 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] win32 attempts > > > > Hi Markus, > > > > The first attempt from my side will be with Visual Studio, but it's > > possoble to compile PHP undr CugWin so I guess the next step would be to > > try that. Using CygWin will most likely require CygWin to be installed and > > as we already provide binaries for native Win32 installations I don't see > a > > real need for this. > > > > - Frank > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > what are you exactly trying to use as your build environment under > > > windows? I'm not sure if the definitive answer was that you need Visual > > > > > Studio components in some way or if you could rely on mingw or if cygwin > > > > > is sufficient. > > > > > > thanks, > > > - Markus > > > > > > Steph wrote: > > > > Hi Frank > > > > > > > > > > > >>My plan is to change the build system to allow building pgo php-gtk2 > > > >>sources the same way as we build pecl extensions > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, that's what I'm doing :) My question was whether I should be > > doing it > > > > from the php-gtk2 toplevel src directory rather than the toplevel > > php-src > > > > directory. Thinking about it, I probably should - otherwise PHP-GTK > > > > extensions will believe they're PHP extensions, no? (NB At present > > I'd be > > > > happy with a base PHP-GTK build, and I guess it doesn't matter which > > > > directory that's based in for now.) > > > > > > > > > > > >>That I don't expect to be too hard. > > > > > > > > > > > > I agree - it seems a lot more straightforward than the standard .dsp > > route. > > > > > > > > > > > >>The bigest problem right now is to get the time to actually work on > > this. > > > >>It's not something I expect done in a single day or week. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have time, for once. And as I say, it _appears_ absolutely > > > > straightforward. I just needed an answer to the question I asked. > > > > > > > > - Steph > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > >