Re: pear installation on php4.30 && windows

Just follow the instructions to the letter and dont forget to make sure to change filename properly in step (2) By the way the installer may get confised if installation directory has special characters or on a different drive then c: Its best to install in c:\php4 as is defaulted in the go-pear script. "Felix Zaslavskiy" <felix@students.poly.edu> wrote in message news:20030111233031.69215.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > This is from Peter Zuidhoek post who seems to have found a workaround > to this problem or installing pear on win with php4.3. reference > news.php.net php.pear.dev:11959 > > Peter Zuidhoek Wrote: > To all those interested: > > I got the installer working after I > > 1) Created the directory C:\Programs\PHP\pear\scripts > > (C:\Programs\PHP is my PHP installation path.) > > 2) Copied the file scripts\pear.in from the PEAR 1.0 package tar-file > (PEAR-1[1].0.tar.gz) to this C:\Programs\PHP\pear\scripts and renamed a copy > of this file to "pear". > > 3) Copied the file scripts\pear.bat from the PEAR 1.0 package tar-file to > the directory C:\Programs\PHP and adapted the following lines: > > set PHP_BIN=c:\programs\php\cli\php.exe > set BIN_DIR=c:\programs\php\pear\scripts > set PEAR_PATH=c:\programs\php\pear > > %PHP_BIN% -C -d output_buffer=1 -d include_path=%PEAR_PATH% -f > %BIN_DIR%\pear -- %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > > 4) The installer works! Both > > pear list > > and > > pear search Auth > > produced plausible output. > > 5) From the output of > > pear config-show > > I could see that php_bin was still pointing to c:\php4\php.exe. I changed > this with: > > pear config-set php_bin c:\programs\php\cli\php.exe > > The other settings seemed OK. > > "Ian Merkel" <php_developer@amerkel.org> wrote in message > news:004a01c2b920$7445aad0$0400a8c0@pious... > > hi all... i've just installed php4.3 on my winxp box, and i'm having the > > worst possible time trying to get pear to work on my box... i'm following > > the instructions on the comments of http://go-pear.org, > > and as of yet, > > nothing works... as it is, i can't even get pear.bat to work, despite > > plugging in the paths as it requires... can anyone give me some insight on > > how to get pear working... > > > > tia > > ian! > > > > > >