Edin, I don't know much about this, but maybe the libraries could be distributed via a cvs directory (e.g win32libs). Like this there would be no need for additional (and probably soon outdated) HOWTO files (and it would make windows builds much easier for not-so-experienced users as I am).
Christoph Edin Kadribasic wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> >> -- >> PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php