Re: [PHP4BETA] compiling for win32

There's an alternative to GNU MingW32 and CygWin32: it's very clean, integrates Unix tools nicely, and does really support the integration of an Unix Kernel within the Win32 environement (i.e. you may mix Win32 API and Unix API). More: it runs on Win95 and Win98. This is called "UWin", by AT&T Research Labs. It's free, but it's not OpenSource. It comes with a convenient ksh implementation. Also you need an implementation of flex and bison (aka lex and yacc, but with better behavior). You may download the latest source packages from www.gnu.org in .tar.gz format. But if you don't have an Unix shell to compile them, you just need to create your own "config.h" file, and create a simple MSDEV project that include all the needed C source files. As an example of a "config.h" created without using the configuration script (which requires a shell runtime): ---begin--- /* "bison-1.28/src/config.h" for MS Visual C++ */ #ifndef BISON_CONFIG_H #define BISON_CONFIG_H #define VERSION_STRING "GNU Bison version 1.28" #define PARAMS(x) x #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1 #define HAVE_STRING_H 1 #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1 #define HAVE_CTYPE_H 1 #define HAVE_ISASCII 1 #define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1 #define HAVE_SETLOCALE 1 #define XPFILE "c:/download/gnu/bison.simple" #define XPFILE1 "c:/download/gnu/bison.hairy" #endif /* BISON_CONFIG_H */ ---end--- Note: the original bison and flex sources DOES NOT have the undocumented options that specify the location of the skeleton file. This location is either built-in in the configuration file where you will install these tools, or specified in environment variables. Shame: the current project workspaces for PHP4 makes use of these undocumented options, and/or specifies hard locations to CygWin32 installation directories. You'll have to patch these project workspaces to make them work on your development system. These undocumented options of flex and bison produce errors by bison and flex at compîle time if you don't patch the project workspaces. Without these options, you should launch MS-DevStudio from a command-line by first setting the environment variables to the appropriate skeleton files. Shame again: PHP4 does not use the default skeleton files, but provide its own versions. I wonder why !!? I was able to compile libzend in thread safe version without using these modified skeleton files, i.e. using the standard skeletons that come with bison and flex, and which locations can be configured globally on the development system without requiring to exit DevStudio and relauching it with different environment variables settings. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Norris <kg9ae@geocities.com> To: Egon Schmid <eschmid@stuttgart.netsurf.de>; <zeev@zend.com> Cc: PHP4 <php4beta@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:00 PM Subject: RE: [PHP4BETA] compiling for win32 > >> Where do we find that package? > > I think he means Cygnus Cygwin compiler. In Germany there exists a port > > named CAMP (Cygnus Apache MySQL PHP): > > CygWin32 is a Unix on Windows compiler/emulator. MingW32 is a > reimplementation of GCC et al for Windows. (There is a CygWin32 vs. MingW32 > comparison on the MingW32 web site.) Basically, MingW32 doesn't make any > attempt to allow Unix code run on Windows. The goal of MingW32 is to make > Windows code compile on Windows. Originally, it was simply a set of Windows > libraries and headers for CygWin32. Now, it is a complete port of GCC to > Windows. And, it looks like a pretty sturdy one at that. > > ,David Norris > > World Wide Web - > http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1652/ > Home Computer - http://illusionary.tzo.cc/ > Page via mail - 412039@pager.mirabilis.com > ICQ Universal Internet Number - 412039 > E-Mail - kg9ae@geocities.com > > > -- > PHP 4 Beta > >