Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

Moving this to the windows list. Make sure you are using the Visual Studio command prompt as it will setup your env for you (all the paths, etc...). Rob Milan Babuskov wrote:

Hi, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

In general, building PHP on windows should be as easy as on Unix, not requiring any special knowledge of the tools, meaning: 1. Get environment with MSVC set up 2. Get external libraries (recommended to put them in same upper-level dir as php checkout) 3. Run buildconf 4. Run cscript configure.js --options 5. Run nmake

When I run nmake, it has a line that starts with "" instead of some command name. Looking at the configure.js script, it seems that it cannot find something called mc.exe on my system (no wonder since I don't have it), but it goes forward happily without any errors. I managed to learn little about mc.exe using Google. It's some kind of Message Compiler by Microsoft. Any idea what do I need to install to get mc.exe? It may seem that MSVC install is broken, but I can build wxWidgets and FlameRobin with it without any problems. I have MSVC 9 Express Edition.

If something doesn't work along the way, most probably some library is missing or wrong version, etc. There's now dedicated windows list internals-win@lists.php.net, which might be a better place for discussing it, but in any case description of the error message would help.

Ok, thanks.