PHP 4.2.2 Building Windows Project: arpa/inet.h not found?

[grue]

I downloaded php4.2.2.tar.bz.

Unpacked it.

Using MS Visual Studio 6.0, I opened php4.dsw in the win32 directory and tried building the projects.

Building "php4dll" project, I get an error when php_network.h tries to include "arpa/inet.h": the file cannot be found.

Anyone know what else must be installed/configured on Windows in order to properly build php4dll on a Windows system using the supplied MSVC projects?

Something cygwinish?

I see via google newsgroups that other people have had this problem, but was unable to find an answer. I was unable to find anything in the supplied documentation about this.

Thank you for your help.

[piersk]

It sounds to me like you've downloaded the nix source code rather than the windows source code (the .tar file ending is usually associated with nix).

Have you looked at the manual? It tells you how to build the source code here.

Just out of question, why would you need to compile the source? You could just download the pre-compiled binaries from here...

[grue]

Hi,

Thanks for the pointer to the "install.windows.php" document. I hadn't seen it before... I was always googling for "build", not "install."

I believe I have the Windows version of the source (it has a win32 subdirectory and MSVC projects/workspaces in a win32/ subdirectory to build everything).

The reason I'm building the source is I hope to integrate PHP scripting capabilties into my program, so I'll need a DLL or a .LIB that I can link with that will provide a PHP/Zend runtime (I hope).

The second reason I'm building the source is that I hope to add a built-in extension to support callbacks into my program as well as a native (C++) in-memory database that my program uses. The database is "fastdb:"

http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/fastdb.html

After reading the install article you pointed me to, I installed cygwin and added the cygwin directories to my MSVC options so VC could find the appropriate cygwin include directories, but I hit a HUGE number of errors because the compiler complained about conflicts between cygwin defined constants and windows standard includes... and stuff like "long long" is illegal under windows...

This is using the visual studio projects supplied in the php-4.2.2 distribution... Something about my Visual Studio configuration is screwed up, but I have no idea where to look.

GUIs stink. 🙂

If anyone has run into this problem and can tell me the include paths they use in MSVC and the order they appear in their options dialog, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you for your helpful reply.