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

Uwe
 I work in  Sun Web Server engineering team and I can help you with your 
testing efforts. The next version of Web Server 7 - is in the process of 
being open sourced under BSD license and might be a good time to use VC9.

- Sriram

Uwe Schindler wrote:
>>> I am not sure, if VC6 can be dropped easily. E.g. some SAPIs that
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>> directly
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>>> map into servers may have problems if using the wrong CRT. Until now, I
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>> had
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>>> no time to build up a Windows "Sun Java System Webserver" and test it
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>> with
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>>> both CRTs. The code compiles fine on the snaps box, but I am not sure,
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>> if
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>>> the DLL loads into the server.
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>> VC6 will be droped after 5.3.0. VC6 can't be supported anymore, it is
>> already a real pain to maintain as most of the modern tools or APIs do
>> not work with it, the licenses can't be built anymore, etc.
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> I think we should do some announcement to the SAPI maintainers to ask them
> to check their modules with their servers (if the SAPI is available for
> Windows). For NSAPI, I will do this some time in future (low priority),
> because it is some work to install a windows server and add SJSWS 7.0 to it
> and possibly debug it (if it does not work). SJSWS is not able to run on my
> local Win XP Prof (I am not sure about this, maybe it works, I will give it
> a try).
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>>> To the snaps build: The NSAPI module tests for "#define ZTS" and does
>>> therefore not compile without thread safety. Why do the windows non-ts
>>> builds on snaps.php compile? Is ZTS on windows always defined (it looks
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>> like
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>>> so in the makefile). How to test on windows, if thread safety is
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>> available?
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>>> But better would be to disable thread-unsafe builds for the NSAPI SAPI
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>> from
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>>> the beginning.
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>> NSAPI is disabled for the NTS builds. They were not explicitly
>> disabled after I reinstalled the snaps box :).
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> Thanks, I have not checked this the last days (since release of 5.2.8).
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> Uwe
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