At 03:38 PM 5/2/2001 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
>On 2001-05-02 14:51:53, "Jani Taskinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That COM problem is Win32 specific. And as Microsoft in it's great
>wisdom
> > has decided not to include any compilers in their OSs, the lack
> > of binary builds for RCs kinda makes it a bit hard for those who would
> > like to to test to actually test.
>
>What would be great is a cross-compiler based on the cygwin package that
>would allow the developers to build win32 versions without having to have
>access to a win32 platform. That way they could at least test to make sure
>that it builds.
>
>Couple that with VMWare and you're flying :-)
>
>Seriously though, win32 is particular hard to do automated testing.
>Maybe we could use cygwin for running the test-suite under win32 and at
>least be able to use standard *nix tools?
>
>I haven't really looked at the test-suite, so this is just a (hopefully)
>helpful suggestion.
The nature of PHP on Windows is that it's really best to compile it with
Visual C++. It uses native threading support and ISAPI support.
I don't think it's a good or feasible idea to move to cygwin.
Andi
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