Hello Andi, as far as I heard from from MS that is the much better way anyhow.
marcus Thursday, October 4, 2007, 5:43:55 AM, you wrote: > Another option which isn't always ideal is to use FastCGI and de-couple > Apache and PHP. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:45 PM >> To: Andi Gutmans >> Cc: Nuno Lopes; Pierre; Marcus Boerger; PHP Internals List; Rob >> Richards; Frank M. Kromann; Edin Kadribasic; Dmitry Stogov >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] VS 2005 Support for 5.3? >> >> Andi Gutmans wrote: >> > Although it may work for you with your applications unless all of >> your >> > 3rd party libs are compiled with VS 2005 there's a fair chance that >> > you'll have issues when data structures are passed between PHP which >> is >> > compiled against one CRT lib to DLLs which were compiled with older >> > versions (different size of structures, etc...) >> >> Or more to the point, localized resources that actually exist in one >> CRT >> which aren't visible to the other CRT. Faux-posix I/O that MS >> implements >> is a really good example of this. >> >> If you are building to Apache httpd binaries /as shipped by the ASF/, >> you >> will want to ship these in VC6 for the lifespan of httpd 2.0/2.2. As >> the >> corner turns over to httpd 2.4 sometime soon, there's a good chance >> that >> VS2005 will be picked up at that point (and stay there for it's >> lifetime). >> I doubt ASF will pick up VS2008 quickly, given the number of clib >> issues >> that occur in each iteration of the libraries. >> >> One trouble is that AS still ships Perl built on VC6 runtime, Python on >> the VS2003 runtime, etc etc. Until everyone can land on VS2005 at the >> same approximate time, it's a game of cat and mouse. >> >> [We won't go into the lack of wisdom of MS shipping yet-another-clib >> for each of their compiler versions.] >> >> If you just clean up the .pdb's to the point that they import cleanly, >> you can really keep everyone happy, today and tomorrow. When you ditch >> the .pdb's, it's no longer possible to export .mak build files at all >> for use outside of the studio-world. Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
