On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, > > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <i...@tyrael.hu> wrote: > > > And some more. > > Pierre mentioned that the firebird extension will be bundled with 5.3.3 > but > > AFAIK it didn't happened. > > There are some info about the missing extensions here: > > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46971 > > Many things are supposed to be done at a given time and then failed. > Shit happens as one likes to say. Anyway, it does not make 5.3.3 less > stable or bad, and given the amount of complains about firebird > (except Lester, who does it endlessly since 5.3.0), it is not a big > deal. > > I meant no offense, are there any blocker about this issue, or we can tell sure that firebird will be in php 5.3.4? I'm just curious because more than one people told me, that firebird builds just fine for 5.3, so I couln't get it, why takes it this long to get properly bundled (and couldn't found this one one http://php.net/~pierre/). > > Yeah, but building php or the extensions is not the easiest thing to do, > on > > linux you just type apt-get install php5-extension or pecl install > > extension, but for windows: > > - pecl install doesn't work on windows (obviously) > > - http://pecl4win.php.net/ -> The pecl4win build box is temporarily out > of > > service. // Temporary my ass. :/ > > - setting up a (free) build environment for php on windows is PITA. at > least > > that was it, when I did last time. > > there are multiple how-to, but almost all of them is outdated. > > I think you really need two things: > > - Read the answers I gave you already > What did I miss? > - Read the doc, build PHP or PHP extensions on Windows is very easy. > To get the right libs or build non compatible lib is not, but that's > not something we can fix easily. > See http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild I will/have to set up my windows buildbox again, but as far as I can remember last time when I did (probably a year ago) I run into more than one problem about dependencies (bison, flex), and there was some discussion on the mailing list about that there is more than one tutorial in the docs/wiki, but they are mostly outdated. maybe I'm just unlucky or because I'm using the Express version, dunno. > > > > thanks again to Pierre ( http://www.php.net/~pierre/ ) for manually > building > > some extensions for windows > > > > and AFAIK there is some problem with building the extension for the VC6 > or > > VC9 builds: > > > > "About GMP, it won't make it with VC6, move to VC9 if you need it." > > > "snmp support has been restored in 5.3.3RC1 (VC9 only)" > > Because the lib does not support VC6. Same for Enchant for example, or > other libs. > > I did mentioned that, I mean that there are other libs that aren't supported in VC6, VC9. the question is, that what can we do about it. I don't like the idea, that we have major differences in the bundled extensions between the VC6 and VC9 versions. the apache guys could really start using the VC9... Tyrael
