RE: [PHP-DEV] VS 2005 Support for 5.3?

Another option which isn't always ideal is to use FastCGI and de-couple Apache and PHP. > -----Original Message----- > From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:wrowe@rowe-clan.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:45 PM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: Nuno Lopes; Pierre; Marcus Boerger; PHP Internals List; Rob > Richards; Frank M. Kromann; Edin Kadribasic; Dmitry Stogov > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] VS 2005 Support for 5.3? > > Andi Gutmans wrote: > > Although it may work for you with your applications unless all of > your > > 3rd party libs are compiled with VS 2005 there's a fair chance that > > you'll have issues when data structures are passed between PHP which > is > > compiled against one CRT lib to DLLs which were compiled with older > > versions (different size of structures, etc...) > > Or more to the point, localized resources that actually exist in one > CRT > which aren't visible to the other CRT. Faux-posix I/O that MS > implements > is a really good example of this. > > If you are building to Apache httpd binaries /as shipped by the ASF/, > you > will want to ship these in VC6 for the lifespan of httpd 2.0/2.2. As > the > corner turns over to httpd 2.4 sometime soon, there's a good chance > that > VS2005 will be picked up at that point (and stay there for it's > lifetime). > I doubt ASF will pick up VS2008 quickly, given the number of clib > issues > that occur in each iteration of the libraries. > > One trouble is that AS still ships Perl built on VC6 runtime, Python on > the VS2003 runtime, etc etc. Until everyone can land on VS2005 at the > same approximate time, it's a game of cat and mouse. > > [We won't go into the lack of wisdom of MS shipping yet-another-clib > for each of their compiler versions.] > > If you just clean up the .pdb's to the point that they import cleanly, > you can really keep everyone happy, today and tomorrow. When you ditch > the .pdb's, it's no longer possible to export .mak build files at all > for use outside of the studio-world.