Re: Installing PEAR with binary distributions

Alexander Merz wrote: > > > We could perhaps create a batch file (shell scripting for win32 :-), > > that executes the pear script with the given parameters. > > Tomas, Stig und I dicuss this last night on irc. First we detect that > $ext_dir = (isset($ext_dir)) ? $ext_dir : PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR; in pear.in > crashes PHP... > > So i propose this way for installing PEAR for Win: > > - the php installer or the user have to set an enviroment variable PHP_PATH > - in php4/pear/scripts are placed pear.bat and pearwin.php > pearwin.php is pear.in without the shebang and including some defines > define( PEAR_INSTALL_DIR, "set/the/path"); > define( PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR, "set/the/path"); > - the user have to edit this defines before use Umm ... I propose: - pear.bat to set at top the needed env vars: * $PHP_PATH * $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR * $PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR * $PEAR_DOC_DIR (user must edit by hand this vars if the building process can't do it) - pear.in to detect if those env vars are set and do the properly define's Tomas V.V.Cox