Re: windows.php.net

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Arcane Wulf <arcanewulf@yahoo.com> wrote: > The site windows.php.net is sort of unclear as to which version is for what situation. I wasted > 50 MB's of bandwidth from getting the "wrong" version twice. the VC6 and VC9 naming > scheme makes VC9 seem like the newer "better" version, when they are actually intended for > different uses, and it isn't made clear for the normal user if they should get thread safe or > non thread safe versions. > > After downloading and installing the VC9 non thread safe version which I found out was for IIS, > and the VC6 non thread safe version which is meant for use as CGI, I finally found a tutorial > describing the purpose of each binary. It would have saved me 40 minutes and 50 MB's bandwidth > if I had known the simple fact that VC6 Thread Safe is intended for use as a module, and VC6 Non > Thread Safe is intended to be used as CGI. Right, NTS and TS are often confusing. NTS is not only for IIS but for everything like CLI or FastCGI in general, and VC9 can always be used (as there is no direct function call between the server and php). The main problem with VC9 is apache. The binaries available from Apache's site uses VC6 and are not compatible. However you can use apachelounge.com binaries, which uses VC9 as well. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org