ID: 22714 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: vbhackattack at hotmail dot com Status: Open -Bug Type: Website problem +Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment:
this is documentation issue.. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 16:49:44] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com I'd rather kill the original description and start over to avoid confusion, but I don't see how to do this. Does bugs.php.net allow the author of a bug report to delete it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 16:47:30] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com Ooops, my original posting got this around backwards due to a mistake following the instructions to configure MS Visual Studio. The "en" instructions are correct (bison and flex are supplied in /extra/win32build.zip so cygwin is not needed) and the "he", "de" and "fr" instructions are perhaps out of date in their requiring cygwin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-14 15:37:30] vbhackattack at hotmail dot com The website page /manual/en/install.windows.php and locale "it" version (perhaps others?) are missing key information compared to other locale versions of this page. Versions for "he", "de" and "fr" contain additional information, such as http://ca.php.net/manual/he/install.windows.php: [Begin quote] Preparations Before you get started, you have a lot to download... For starters, get the Cygwin toolkit from the closest cygwin mirror site. This will provide you most of the popular GNU utilities used by the build process. Download the rest of the build tools you will need from the PHP site at http://www.php.net/extra/win32build.zip. [End quote] Compared to: [Begin quote] Requirements To compile and build PHP you need a Microsoft Development Environment. Microsoft Visuaul C++ 6.0 is recommended. To extract the downloaded files you need a extraction utilitiy (e.g.: Winzip). If you don't already have an unzip utility, you can get a free version from InfoZip. Before you get started, you have to download... ..the win32 buildtools from the PHP site at http://www.php.net/extra/win32build.zip. [End quote] The "en" and "it" version of this page makes passing mention of cygwin as if it is incidental, whereas in fact it (or equivalent UNIX tools) is a prerequisite to building under MS-Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22714&edit=1 -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
