Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

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. -- Milan Babuskov http://www.flamerobin.org