Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] [PHP Wiki] new user: u.masotti

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 18:25, Umberto Masotti<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>
> Hannes Magnusson ha scritto:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 19:28, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A new user has registered. Here are the details:
>>>
>>> User name   : u.masotti
>>> Full name   : Umberto Masotti
>>>
>>
>>
>> Please let us know for what purpose you registered, so that we can set
>> you up with the necessary permissions.
>>
>> Note: If you already have a php.net CVS account - you can use those
>> credentials for the wiki as they contain full write karma to any
>> namespace.
>>
>> -Hannes
>>
>
> I'm the main documentation translator to italian for Firebird's project (
> http://www.firebirdsql.org ), but actually I'm involved in php_interbase.dll
> debate trying to solve some problems related to Windows PHP 5.3.0,
> php_interbase driver and firebird's client libraries.
>
> As per firebird's project, I've compiled a non official PHP5.3.0 VC6
> php_interbase.dll for Firebird 2.1 client library, as there are some
> different POV in .lib(s) and .dll(s) source management: actually VC6 isn't
> more maintained to compile firebird since 2.0 (last VC6 version maintained
> in CVS is 1.5.* ).
>
> I started writing some of the Wiki page about that, but I'm in some trouble
> because I don't know if what I've done is in line with  PHP desiderata. Try
> to explain better: actually, there is no way to compile Firebird's client
> libraries for windows in VC6, only VC8 and VC9 are supported. To build
> firebird's PHP driver there are choice forced:
> 1) use precompiled .lib and .h
> 2) build --with-interbase=shared (not static)
> So may be that the section I've started,
> http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/libs/firebird
> actually can be partially off-topic, as I can explain detailed process
> above, but there's no way to build Firebird's client libs with VC6
> (fbclient.dll, fbclient_ms.lib, ib_util.lib) as I was told to write by
> Pierre Jolie.
>
> Anyway maybe that some or good part of the job can be ported elsewhere, in a
> more appropriate page: this is why I stopped.
> Hope you can give me some hints.

This sounds like things you should discuss with the windows guys - I
was just replying to seemingly stale wiki account requests :)

-Hannes