RE: [PHP-WIN] Editing article: Build your own PHP on Windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph M. Becker [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 5:25 PM
> To: Anatol Belski <[email protected]>; 'Sam Hobbs'
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Editing article: Build your own PHP on Windows
> 
> On 23.09.2016 at 02:36, Anatol Belski wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the interest on building yourself.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Sam Hobbs [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:59 PM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Editing article: Build your own PHP on Windows
> >>
> >> Setup the build directory
> >> […] For Step 1, the "build directory"
> >> c:\php-sdk can be on a different drive and "php-sdk" can be a
> >> sub-directory.
> >
> > This is not correct. Currently the paths are hardcoded at many places,
> > so moving around should happen.
> 
> FWIW, I'm building in C:\Users\cmb\php\sdk\… since quite a while and never
> noticed a problem. :-)
> 
It might indeed work if only compiling. But, there's still stuff depending on the exact paths. Doing customized setups were something for the advanced devs like you. How I saw it till now, that wiki page is supposed to give some obvious instructions for people that never did it before. OFC another page(s) can be started, for any advanced usages of the SDK, etc.

Regards

Anatol