#22714 [Opn]: locale versions of install.windows.php are out of sync

ID: 22714 User updated by: vbhackattack at hotmail dot com -Summary: /manual/en/install.windows.php is missing key information Reported By: vbhackattack at hotmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: Ooops, my original posting got this around backwards due to a mistake following the instructions to configure MS Visual Studio. The "en" instructions are correct (bison and flex are supplied in /extra/win32build.zip so cygwin is not needed) and the "he", "de" and "fr" instructions are perhaps out of date in their requiring cygwin. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 15:37:30] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com The website page /manual/en/install.windows.php and locale "it" version (perhaps others?) are missing key information compared to other locale versions of this page. Versions for "he", "de" and "fr" contain additional information, such as http://ca.php.net/manual/he/install.windows.php: [Begin quote] Preparations Before you get started, you have a lot to download... For starters, get the Cygwin toolkit from the closest cygwin mirror site. This will provide you most of the popular GNU utilities used by the build process. Download the rest of the build tools you will need from the PHP site at http://www.php.net/extra/win32build.zip. [End quote] Compared to: [Begin quote] Requirements To compile and build PHP you need a Microsoft Development Environment. Microsoft Visuaul C++ 6.0 is recommended. To extract the downloaded files you need a extraction utilitiy (e.g.: Winzip). If you don't already have an unzip utility, you can get a free version from InfoZip. Before you get started, you have to download... ..the win32 buildtools from the PHP site at http://www.php.net/extra/win32build.zip. [End quote] The "en" and "it" version of this page makes passing mention of cygwin as if it is incidental, whereas in fact it (or equivalent UNIX tools) is a prerequisite to building under MS-Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22714&edit=1