Re: windows installer problems

Shane Caraveo wrote: > > Issues getting pear installed on windows when NO pear directory exists: > > Getting wget... > http://space.tin.it/computer/hherold/ > > wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear I forget to mention that the "php-only" way is still avaible: c:> php-cli -r "readfile('http://pear.php.net/go-pear');" > go-pear c:> php-cli -d output_buffering=0 go-pear Note that the "-d output_buffering=0" is needed. At least during my tries under XP I was not able to make the output appear without that (PHP bug?). > > php go-pear > BUG: rmdir on line 609??? many warnings output Fixed: I learned the lesson: "Under Windows one can not delete a directory opened with opendir() and not properly closed then with closedir()" > BUG: Net/SMTP.php not installed, required by Mail/SMTP.php > BUG: Net/Socket.php not installed, required by Net/smtp.php Fixed: Now if you choose "Install bundled packages" go-pear will install Net_Socket and Net_SMTP too. > BUG: scripts directory not installed, pear.in not available > Copied pear.in from php cvs to php/pear/scripts > copied pear.bat from php cvs to php/ > edit pear.bat to reflect correct paths for PHP_BIN and PEAR_PATH > edit pear.in: > comment out line with @include_path@ > replace @pear_version@ with 0.9.1 I've analysed this problem, but have to spend more time on it, time that I don't have right now (I spend too much time trying to do simple things under Windows). I'm going to put the proper replacements in pear.bat too. > Now 'pear install' will work correctly > > run 'pear config-show' > > BUG: PEAR test directory | test_dir | c:\php4\pear\tests > all other paths are correct per the go-pear script settings > if not the correct path, must reset it. > 'pear config-set test_dir .......\pear\tests' Will look. Tomas V.V.Cox