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Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:11:07 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
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Subject: Re: Installing php 5
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Robert Schmidt schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> mirko tebaldi schrieb:
>>> Please, someone can help me (eventually in private mailing) step by 
>>> step for
>>> installing php 5 ?
> 
>> Go to http://www.php.net
> 
> Neither PHP4 nor 5 take part of cygwin because the package was broken. 
> I'm also anxious to see it back in!
> 
> I succeeded installing the Win32 PHP4 binaries from php.net, and got it 
> to work in cygwin Apache 1.3 as a CGI handler.
> 
> This is suboptimal compared to an Apache module, though, and the Win32 
> PHPs won't understand cygwin's home folders or symlinks (and probably 
> much more).

Yes, but these php.net builds and snaps come with all needed modules.

The real problem with php packaging for cygwin is not php alone. 
(besides the not yet solved apache ssl - rebase problem, which is 
irrelevant to the cli target)
It's all the seperate and dirty old modules you need to install.
About 60?
If it would be easy, I would have made it also.

But for my company I had to do php updates on linux once in a while and 
it was a nightmare. Esp. Boutell's GD way of things.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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