Windows 95/NT Specific Notes on Compilation

Windows compilation has only been tested with Microsoft Visual C++ 
Version 5 Standard Edition.  The PHP executable has only had limited
testing under Windows 95.  SAFE MODE and any User or Group functionality
has not been ported/tested.

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Base Configuration and Configuration Issues

*The base configuration for the windows php version contains odbc
and flatfile database support.  Support for other database modules will
be provided as external dll files.  
*ODBC can be used to connect to many of the databases previously 
supported by php (though they can still be compiled in if you have 
the libraries!)  
*GD graphics library will not be supported at this time.  
*Crypt will only compile if you create a crypt library.

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Additional included libraries
You MUST seperately compile the regex library.  It must be compiled as
multithreaded if you are creating any server module.

A DBASE library has been included.  VC5 makefiles have been included
to aid in compilation.  You must compile the DBASE library before
php to include it in the project.  It must be compiled as
multithreaded if you are creating any server module.

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Makefiles

Be sure to edit any windows makefile and change the include directories
to be appropriate for your system.

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CGI Version

The makefile for the cgi version of php is located in the win32 
subdirectory of the php source tree.  This make file is specificaly
for Visual C++ V5.

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ISAPI Version

While the ISAPI version will compile and parse a php script, it is
not recommended for use until a later beta that will be thread-safe.
If you choose to set it up on a test server, we would appreciate 
notification of any bugs you may encounter.  The ISAPI makefile can
be found in the win32 directory and is called isapi.mak

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NSAPI Version

The NSAPI version is unlikely to work at this time.  In a future beta
the NSAPI module should be working

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ApacheNT module

UNTESTED

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External Modules

A sample external module can be found in the directory sampledl under
the php source tree.  The makefile is called win32vc5.mak

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Other Libraries

To compile additional features into the windows version of php you will
need to download and compile various other libraries.  These libraries
should be compiled as multithreaded libraries if you are compiling any
server module.  If you are compiling cgi, you may compile as single
threaded.  The following items are untested by us, but are ported to
windows95/NT.  If you are aware of any other ported libraries that
are in use by the unix version of php, please report their location
to the php development team.

Berkly DB 2.3.11 http://www.sleepycat.com/
mSQL 2.01        http://www.blnet.com/msqlpc

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WINDOWS 98

No testing has been done with this port on windows 98.


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INSTALLATION

Please refer to the php-list archives for information on installing
php for your particular server.  More notes on installation will
be provided here at a future date.  At a much later beta or
final version, an automated install program will be added.

INI File
Be sure to copy the php.ini file in the win32 subdirectory to your
c:\windows or c:\winnt directory.  Make whatever modifications may be
necessary for you system and server



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