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“I’m trying to compile PHP on Windows”
Such a simple statement brought various reactions in IRC channels and mailing lists. But invariably I heard the same thing asked.
“Why?”
No, I’m not insane. And I realize that there are some great resources for downloading precompiled ready to go […]

After Pierre’s nice hint after my rant about compile failures (his comment said download this huge file from Edin’s site…)
I downloaded zip.zip (nice descriptive name eh?) from edin’s site. Deleted my current win32build directory - unzipped that monster, took the php_build, dropped it where win32build was and renamed it (hey, took me a long […]

For three days I fought with compiling PHP5.2 on windows. The point was to be able to compile PHP-GTK2 a little more often (there are at least two bugfixes in CVS that I need for my writer project) and asking on the list/irc for compiled versions got me some smartass answer about “learn to […]