Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] RE: [PHP-DEV] Differences in VC6 and VC9 Windows builds and MSSQL Driver.

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Uwe Schindler wrote:
>> In my opinion, the best is to avoid this conflict and link with VC6 header
>> files and CRT (like OpenSSL does).
> 
> Although I (obviously) concur... the bigger issue is to point the users at
> the most current msvcrt link lib and header files, and so I'm looking at the
> various MS packages (particularly SDK/WDK) to determine where those might
> hide.  It's nearly impossible for poor souls just joining us to find a d/l
> of the Studio 6 anymore, even with full msdn karma.
> 
> 
Let me know when you figure that out

AFAIK the last SDK that works with msvcrt.dll is the Feb 2003 SDK that
we use to build with PHP 6.0 - yes that's a 6 year old SDK - it is
freely available for download.

Newer SDK's headers and libs will link against the newer CRTS and don't
work with the older compilers.

MS cannot legally distribute MSVC6 anymore - you can read up on the Sun
settlements if you want to know why.  Bottom line is people can't get it.

On a side note... would you advocate linking against a 10 year old glibc?

Thanks,
Elizabeth Smith