The main reason is that it is the easiest way to get things to built right now; I do plan to accomodate your own layout, but haven't coded support for that yet :)
I'll make this particular thing optional (but print a warning) for now; can you build without it? (I take it you have your preferred paths in your env vars) --Wez. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank M. Kromann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wez Furlong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New win32 build system > Hi Wez, > > Why is that needed ? I build all the stuff that I need from sources so I > have my own file structure for external header and library files. > > - Frank > > > --with-php-build should be the path to the dir where you > > unzipped: http://www.php.net/extra/win32build.zip. > > > > Maybe I should rename it from php_build (that name comes > > from Edin's snap building scripts, and his big brother > > version of that zip file). > > > > --Wez. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Frank M. Kromann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Wez Furlong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:36 AM > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New win32 build system > > > > > > > Hi Wez, > > > > > > If I don't specify --with-php-build I get this > > > > > > Saving configure options to config.nice.bat > > > Checking for cl ... cl.exe > > > Checking for link ... link.exe > > > Checking for nmake ... nmake.exe > > > Checking for make ... <not found> > > > ERROR: Could not find the php_build dir; please specify it > > > using the --with-php-build option to configure > > > > > > - Frank > > > > > > > > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
