Re: README.WIN32-BUILD-SYSTEM

Hi Hector, On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> wrote: > Building PHP using DSW files [PHP 4] > > Compiling PHP using the DSW files isn't supported as of > PHP 5, as a much more flexible system was made available. > Anyway, you can still use them, but keep in mind that they > are not maintained very often, so you can have compiling > problems. To compile PHP 4 for windows, this is the only > available way though. PHP4 is dead, any second spent on building it on windows is a wasted second :) > Once I get the "official maintained" command-line building method worked > out, I will update the Visual Studio project/solution files for both VS 6.0 > and VS 2005 (which is what I have). When I cross that bridge, I'll ask > someone to test the VS 2008 Express version. That would not be very useful. Nobody uses them and they are outdated. The normal and supported way is the cscript + nmake, which works for all VS (we are working on supporting 2k5/8 these days, incl. the deps). As Bjori pointed out, there is also updated information in the wiki, please consider to read it. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org