I've no personal experience with these tools but there are lots of good references here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3189100/php-compiler-for-windows
-- Jeff Slutz JSLEUTH LLC 3242 44th ST APT 3F Astoria, NY 11103 c. 970.443.9390 j...@jeffslutz.com On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com>wrote: > Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Charles Vasquez <cvasque...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > what is hip hop? When you speak about compiling do you mean creating a > > windows dll or something? I am new to this type of speak, not new to php, > > but the php community. I practice php for personal purposes. > > Hi Charles, > > Hip Hop is a technology developed by Facebook. It basically takes PHP > source code and rewrites it as highly optimized C++ code (or maybe > just C, I can't remember). It makes the code run faster and scale > better for them. > > But by compiling, I mean creating a Windows executable. A program you > can run directly without having to have the language interpreter on > your machine. So I could write PHP code, compile it to a Windows > executable and distribute that .exe file which people could run > directly on their machines without having to have PHP installed. While > a DLL is something pretty similar and is compiled, it's not quite the > same thing. DLL's are more libraries of functions that programs can > use while a program executable is the program itself. > > That's probably clear as mud, I'm sure. I suck at explaining things. > > Anthony > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation >
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