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8. bjoern May 19, 2010 at 12:19 am

   Hi,
I have somehoe a Problem with bison. Any clue?
C:\php_sdk\php_53_dev\vc9\x86\PHP_5_3>nmake snap
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility, Version 9.00.30729.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
        bison.exe --output=Zend/zend_ini_parser.c -v -d -p ini_ Zend/zend_ini_pa
rser.y
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\bison.exe: c:/usr/loca
l/lib/bison.simple: No such file or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\
VC\BIN\bison.exe"": Rückgabe-Code "0x2"
Stop.
9. Kanwaljeet Singla Post authorMay 19, 2010 at 4:07 am

   Hi,

   Everytime you launch Visual studio command prompt, you need to run c:\php_sdk\bin\phpsdk_setvars.bat. This will add c:\php_sdk\bin folder to path. This folder has bison.exe which is required for building PHP. I will add this detail in my blog.

   Thanks,
   Kanwal

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13. Acalord June 13, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    Hi,
    I noticed something in your winbuild.bat script: After I ran it, things seems going well, but I saw a "phpsdk_servars.bat not found" likely message, and finally a "bison.exe not found" message.
    Looking into the code I found at line 110 this instruccion: CALL phpsdk_servars.bat
    I changed it by: CALL "%PHPROOT_BIN%\phpsdk_setvars.bat"
    Then re-ran the batch and all things went smooth.
    Regards.
14. Kanwaljeet Singla Post authorJune 14, 2010 at 7:25 am

    Thanks for reporting this bug. I have made this change in the script.
15. Hans Stråhle September 9, 2010 at 5:15 am

    Running winbuild.bat I get the following errors:
    "WHERE" is not regognized as an internal or external command …
    "cl.exe" not found. Please install Visual Studio …
16. Mark Foster October 27, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    This script was incredibly helpful.  Thank you Kanwaljeet for taking the time to post it.
    For those VS2008 newbies such as myself it is worth noting that when building on a Windows 7 64-bit OS, the shell you use when you set up and compile will determine if the PHP build is 64-bit or 32-bit.  If it is 64-bit you need to modify the script to go grab the 64-bit extensions.  In my case I wanted a 32-bit PHP build because I am targeting to a set of 32-bit servers.  I attempted to use the "CMD Shell" shortcut under the Microsoft Windows SDK v6.1 programs menu.  Using this shell gave me a 64-bit version of the PHP (assuming I didn't attempt to include any 32-bit extensions).  The "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt" command prompt shortcut under "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition"->"Visual Studio Tools" allowed me to build for 32-bit.
    Thanks again!
    -Mark

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18. charper January 17, 2011 at 4:24 am

    Tried this after struggling with getting al my dependencies in order.  I get error "your build will be incomplete" "you do not have a snapshot template".  Any ideas?
19. cindy January 19, 2011 at 5:53 am

    I tried your build, but no matter what I do, I still have the problem I had when I tried downloading all the various parts and dependencies myself.  I get a "ordinal 57 not found in dynamic link library zlib1.dll" when I run php or php-cgi.exe.  Any suggestions?
20. deciacco February 11, 2011 at 6:39 am

    where you made this — CALL "%PHPROOT_BIN%\phpsdk_setvars.bat" — there is a typo. you have servars instead of setvars with a "t".
    also, since your script zilb was updated from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5 in the libroot folder
    thanks for the script
21. Adeel Fakhar July 27, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    This tutorial is very much appreciated. The way it is explained is simply awesome. Anyways i have also seen a tutorial over a website that demonstrates how to install php on windows 7 with IIS 7 via FastCGI. For the users who want to host php with IIS 7, it will be great help for them
    http://nice-tutorials.blogspot.com/2011/07/installing-php-on-windows-7-with-iis-7.html
22. Jacky February 5, 2012 at 11:55 am

    If i understand this correctly, I do not need Windows SDK 6.1 to compile PHP?
    I'm sory i know im a noobie on this one, but since i've started trying to compile my own php (with my own add-ons, modules loaded as static) I've kept getting some compiler errors. From weird to version mismatch etc., every thing i searched up on google didnt work out =) Im going to give your script a try, but i have a positive thought so far !

    Anyway back to original question, since official php windows instructions tell you to get SDK, is it required at all?
23. Jacky February 5, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Common error I'm getting: Command line error D8040 : error creating or communicating with child process
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\
    VC\Bin\cl.exe"' : return code '0×2'

    Any ideas? Sorry for double post by the way =(
24. GB July 3, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    There is a typo in setvar.dat. Second, the links for library downloads needs to be updated. The set up does not complete. Setting up manually. Please let me know when you update winbuild.dat. It will be nice for future versions. 

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