Re: Installing pear on windows

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! If you don't have PEAR with your PHP, make sure you downloaded the .zip Win32 binary distribution. If you have PHP 4.2.1, there should be a PEAR.bat file - this runs the PEAR installer. You'll probably need to hack the bat file around before it'll work entirely properly. If in doubt, there is a pear.in (or it might just be called pear) file in the pear/scripts directory - the PEAR installer. It's a PHP script, so you can run it with 'PHP -q pear.in' or 'PHP-CLI pear.in'. You'll notice that despite the fact that there are PEAR packages available with the PEAR distribution that comes in the PHP .zip archive, but there are no corresponding PEAR .registry entries. You'll need to install the packages from downloaded archives (http://pear.php.net/packages.php and download .tgz files). If you want to install PEAR-0.11 or later, you'll notice that it requires Console_Getopt-0.11 or later to be installed, but after you install Console_Getopt the PEAR installer stops working completely. This is because the you need to upgrade both packages simultaneously, which is clearly impossible. To work around this, extract PEAR package from the archive it comes in manually and install the files to where they belong, which should get the PEAR installer working properly. Now use the PEAR installer to install the PEAR package properly. You'll need to make sure that the bin_dir PEAR installer configuration variable is set to your pear/scripts directory or the installation will crash and burn. And it took me three days to figure that little lot out. ;-) Peter Brett - ----------- peter:AT:peter-b:DOT:co:DOT:uk www.peter-b.co.uk - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Gallagher" <timg@sunflowerroad.com> To: <pear-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:14 PM Subject: [PEAR] Installing pear on windows > I've searched through the mailing list archive, and have come up > with no tutorial, and no recent question about installing pear on > windows. > > Does anyone have a tutorial or some advice? > > It would be really nice if someone could write something up to put > on the pear.php.net website under the installation section of the > manual. > > -timmyg > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPQZanhmmzLp5+kKBEQJ8DgCgjZe8YIoJv+LmqKp0shqUse17cbwAoL/k 15CKhmvo7uBaUmy4NPMPzeGz =GFBI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- STANDARD DISCLAIMER E-mail communication is not secure and can easily be forged or tampered with during transmission. This message appears to originate from The Oratory School Association, but does not necessarily represent the opinions of the Association, its employees or students. Should you have any concerns regarding the content of this message then please contact postmaster@oratory.co.uk