-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Max Bowsher wrote: > I personally have no need for PHP, but I know it's a very widely > used piece of software. > > After John Morrison's recent mention of PHP in passing, I decided > to do a quick estimate of how difficult getting PHP working on > Cygwin would be. To cut a long story short, I got a bit carried > away, and now have a functional apache2 php5 module. In case you do decide to package it, please enable also FastCGI, it can be very handy with lighttpd =) And, if you don't see any reason not to, please do include - --enable-zend-multibyte option: sadly still undocumented[1], but actually works very well (I use it in production system both Windows and FreeBSD since a long time), has the nice property to let PHP understand automatically the format of UTF-x .php files and thus avoid many localitazion problems.
[1] except here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22108 > PHP definitely needs its postgresql support available to be useful > most non-trivial application. If I want to avoid creating a hard > dependency on the postgresql package, the PHP pgsql extension needs > to be built as a shared library. I'd go down this road, but for the main reason that I do not need pgsql, and if it is so much more difficult, if I was the mantainer I'd probably go for the hard dependency and use the good old excuse that disk space is cheap ;-) Lapo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJDvmFEAAoJELBiMTth2oCDPOkP/3cNOmWpB/XdZ2GAvoMeWSk/ fQ6SXDZznzHmKScjoalBIyPB6CkYW2v9txNdboJ18cgW2Bt0ppa55ESERGaa4r4F b6OeQc6oeZt6+RCXYhXCZGTF3/eTwUhrAQkpeYgznlOMmEDtjP4Jg42CY7pg04MH HnMba4f95iJg7OBP2f3yLeRyiBO0ekEKmoGqTDzBOyI87IKlO5ZK7uZxzM5/DAql GgpVvjhqwkTEPYzVGgfTv6UEU86R8xIVYRrPOXwQ6nRvMRpILb4dDGA+j4/QZ9EI TUyD7gX8BNOstaDVlw5/cgWIGtPPfl1NyaX1XJeSjMfi1r/dPANg1CV+VfSq4vlr i6aidk/vKleNW4d/JeCH5qnTeOrn1fJ1PIUUqPh/RLZ/oqc4vV4/BU4jvpZtgLUb rZixax5Eh+znhUlkns35YMCGk2Ko/aeFTw0am1eYBeBS8PidtU/tbOeO0dXET22m d3YYkBXn4UmEtr2x7DI9mggsMQ4pZ3VYoOCYcl7QMFo7EdTxsvdBA2YcHRyxAOPb hNJ1N+gi3l47JX/QGJtXKLlFmaN++4wBgHdjuv7/1dc7eGC1uR7ecYj2WviFWKmW pzoH2EOjNbJaw4BTYzrRA8FLUXw/+FsRn+RRhXU+0lV80s/ePJItvpKYoKd11cd7 t20fzn2PgqxTTFZnxqk9 =GgJo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
