Windows development stack

>> recommended here.
In the right place ;)

> PHP uses VC9 yes. SDK 6.1 comes with VC9 (you do not need to install
> Visual studio to compile PHP).
The problem here is you have to install everything just to get the compiler :(

But thanks for the kick ... this was also the area that I had problems with on 
the Vista box. On that machine I have both X86 and x64 compilers installed, but 
switching between them was causing a problem. It turns out the there are a 
couple of versions of mspdb80.dll and the path selection should give the right 
version - but wasn't. As I was trying to copy things I started getting an error 
rather than just a crash.

The current free VS2008 download only gives the x86 compiler, while I would only 
have got the x64 version with a previous download.

> VC10 is supported with the PSDK 7.x. However I have doubts about the
> stability of both vc10 and the recent SDKs right now, there are many
> issues happening with the latest updates and do not make us confident
> enough to move to it for 5.4.
I'm having much the same problem with the new RadStudioXP IDE as well :(

But I've stripped the compiler from VC2008 and have that section working. Just 
looking now to control this via Eclipse since I have the SVN repo running from 
there already. Should be able to do an automated build now.

The remaining problem though is how to build a shared extension? I have been 
doing this in the past as I've got the php_interbase one, but my notes on how to 
do it are missing. Are there any note on-line? 30 years ago I could identify 
problems in my code base just in memory. Nowadays I forget I've just made a drink ;)

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