On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 24 July 2013 21:54, Matijn Woudt <tijn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Richard Quadling 
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>>> PHP 5.5+ is (from news)
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>>>    - Windows XP and 2003 support dropped.
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>>> Does that mean no longer executes (as is seemingly what I'm seeing) or
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>>> no longer supported/developed?
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>>> Just going to look into getting to the bottom of the CHM build issues and
>>> only have an XP license of Windows.
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>>> Will drop back to PHP 5.4 to see if that's OK on the VM I have.
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>>> Hi,
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>> It is only no longer supported/developed. It probably will compile fine
>> on it for a long time, though some new features might not. It probably also
>> means they are not going to test on XP/2003 anymore, and will not respond
>> to bugs related to these operating systems.
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>> - Matijn
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> From what I can see, PHP V5.5.1 (just downloaded onto a clean VM) fails to
> execute. But V5.4.17 works fine.
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> --
> Richard Quadling
> Twitter : @RQuadling
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The precompiled version indeed does not work on XP/2003, but I think you
can still compile it yourself for windows XP.

- Matijn

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