Re: Building PHP 5.2.X on VC9‏

2011/4/20 Andres Herrera <herreraaandres@live.com>: > > Hello all, > > I've been tasked to create Production ready builds of > PHP 5.2.17 and PHP 5.3.6 to run on IIS 7.0 web servers. The > StepByStepBuild wiki instructions were perfect, I was able to get a PHP > 5.3.6 build in no time at all. However, not having VC6, I was forced to > use VC9 to compile 5.2.17. I basically followed the same instructions > for building PHP 5.3.6 just used different source. The build was > successful, however I have to question what possible issues I've > introduced using VC9 and Windows SDK 6.1 instead of using VC6 and > Platform SDK 2003. > > The windows compiler wiki >  shows that VC9 for 5.2.x is not officially supported but known to work. >  This comment makes me hesitant to deploy this build to a Production > environment. I looked around the MSDN and found that Microsoft no longer >  supports VC6 and can no longer be downloaded via their site. Is there > any way to obtain VC6 anymore??  I can't use the PHP pre build binaries > because we want to have the ability to customize the code base. > > What >  do you all suggest, is PHP 5.2.17 built using VC9 with Windows SDK 6.1 > Production quality? Or should I find a way to get a copy of VC6? > > Thank you, > > Andres Herrera The wiki had a bit of an issue and had to be recovered. Some of the data may be out of date. For Windows, VC9 with SDK 6.1 is used to build PHP. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY