Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] No IDN and IPv6 support in cURL?

hi Jan, On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: > Pierre Joye in php.internals.win (Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:29:14 +0200): >>Libcurl has to be built to enable IDN conversion. @a did you enable the IDN? >> >>See >>https://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/master/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt > > I have always built my own PHP (5.3, 5.4, 5.5) on Win7 after building > libcurl_a.lib with this command in curl-src\winbuild: > > nmake /f makefile.vc mode=static VC=11 MACHINE=x86 > WITH_DEVEL=/php-sdk/deps USE_IDN=yes WITH_SSL=static > WITH_SSH2=static ENABLE_WINSSL=no WITH_ZLIB=static > > s/VC11/VC9/ for 5.3 & 5.4. > > Then somebody told me php_curl.dll was broken on WinXP because of the > missing normaliz.dll: > http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=5273 > > I do not use it myself with IDN-domains, but have never experienced any > problems with my home-grown php_curl.dll. It is not broken but not present. Windows XP (and 2003) users have to install it manually. It can be done using: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=734 > I suppose error checking is done by libcurl and normaliz.dll, so > additional code for error checking seems a bit overdone. Testing does > not harm anybody, but I do not have a use-case at hand. The compilation works fine as these DLLs and their respective headers/libs are part of the SDK. Cheers. -- Pierre @pierrejoye