Packages such as xampp, which are very widely used, bundle a thread safe interpreter.
It's a fact that ZTS is important on Windows. Cheers Joe On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 16:22, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 11:57, Zeev Suraski <z...@php.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:26 AM Joe Watkins <krak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The ZTS build is very commonly used in Windows today > > > > > > > Any idea why? > > > > > https://windows.php.net/ currently recommends using an NTS build with > FastCGI, but there is (or was?) also an ISAPI module, i.e. the IIS > equivalent of Apache mod_php. > > I think that requires / required ZTS, so that may be where the perception > of "thread-safety is important for Windows users" comes from. > > Regards, > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] >
