Re: [PHP-WIN] Building PHP 5.2.X on VC9‏

2011/4/20 Andres Herrera <[email protected]>:
>
> 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data may be out of date.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.

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