Re: [PHP-DEV] .lib file for a Win32 compile From: John Wright (john <email protected>)
Date: 11/20/00

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:37:59PM +0100, Daniel Beulshausen wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:12:50PM +0100, Daniel Beulshausen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:44:33AM +0000, John Wright wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > shouldn't you be able to compile php yourself, if you want to develop a
> > > php extension?
> >
> > This extension is loaded using dl() so I only need header files and the
> > php4ts.lib.
>
> that wasn't the answer to my question :)

Well. The fact that there is no need to and that you require a number of
other programs/utilities installed to get php to compile and all of them I
certainly do not require make the extra effort seem like too much trouble.

Maybe I just wasn't expecting it. I only knew about bindlib because of a
comment in the source code. :)

> > There appears to be very little support/interest in dynamicly loading
> > extensions as I've always had to battle to find the right includes and
> > structure parameters -- but once I've done that everything works
> > perfectly.
>
> i don't understand what you mean :)
> anyway i think we can include the lib file in the release(s), if it's
> needed.
> if you need the headers, grab the source release.

That's perfect. 

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