RE: [INTERNALS-WIN] PHP7: which Windows Kit?

Hi Jan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Ehrhardt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 9:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] PHP7: which Windows Kit?
> 
> Hi Anatol,
> 
> "Anatol Belski" in php.internals.win (Tue, 4 Aug 2015 10:16:58 +0200):
> >Your information is not correct. A separate SDK is only needed when an
> >earlier VS version is used. And SDK 10 needed when targeting specific
> >Win10 features. PHP7 only requires UCRT which is present on
> >Win10/Server 2016 by default or available as a VC++ redistributable on
lower.
> 
> This discussion suffers from talking about semantics like targetting and
the use
> of SDK's. Let us just talk filenames. I installed VS2015 Pro and chose to
install the
> Windows 10 UM as well. If I follow the wiki description, open up a
'Developer
> Command Prompt for VS2015' to compile
> PHP7 or Openssl, the building process includes
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10240.0\um\WinSock2.h
> 
> The people from Apachelounge also installed VS2015 but chose not to
install the
> Windows 10 UM. If they follow the wiki description and open a 'Developer
> Command Prompt for VS2015' the build includes
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\include\um\WinSock2.h
> 
> If you say that should not make any difference, I will take your word for
that.
> But I have my doubts.
> 
How do you check what is included?

> >Regarding headers - within same VS version ABI/API compatibility is
> >usually kept.
> 
> Those files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\include\um\ were
> installed together with VS2013 and the ones in C:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows
> Kits\10\Include\10.0.10240.0\um with VS2015. Is that the "same VS version
> ABI/API"?
The same version is the one required for VS2015. Btw what is "UM"? Never
seen the abbreviation.

Regards

Anatol