> The solution for this would be to create and maintain HOW-TO files for all > the extensions requireing an external library. > > Many if these libs. can be downloaded and build from source files. Only a > few requires commercial libraries.
This would also solve the problem Edin and I briefly discussed on irc (of different versions of the same library being available and supported) I'd be happy to do some work on this. > > - Frank > > > Yes, Steph is right, the set of libraries used on the snaps machine is > ~70MB > > (uncompressed) and I don't think it's practical to update win32build.zip > to > > include them all. And this 70 MB does not include files needed for > building > > ext/infromix, ext/interbase and sapi/pi3web. > > > > Edin > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Christoph Grottolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Sisolak" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "PHP DEV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:44 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What headers/libs does Win32 Snaps build use? > > > > > > > There are a lot of them - that's likely to be the biggest issue. > Nearly > > > 20 megs of libraries (and this from some months ago). > > > > > > This is really Edin's territory... > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Christoph Grottolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:31 PM > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What headers/libs does Win32 Snaps build use? > > > > > > > > > > > Basically what I'm talking about is updating win32build.zip so > that > > > it > > > > > has all the current libraries that are really used to do a PHP > build > > > > > on Win32. Is there a practical or licensing reason why that > > > couldn't > > > > > be done? Would it be a lot more work than just packaging up a > few > > > > > directories on the snaps machine? > > > > > > > > > > Michael Sisolak > > > > > > > > +1 on this - if my vote counts > > > > > > > > Christoph -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
