Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Windows binaries 64bit for PHP Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 16:45:29 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net UslAdL4u0SvoPfu2xuhUlQNJYd+k0Hc+oql9lH9LrMWkNnNdpF+X3D+fWqNN3xJB+b Cancel-Lock: sha1:OHIy0Fjboo8LbTPN49pyRL8Fv5M= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:5995 Dominique Ottello wrote: > "J.O. Aho" écrivait : > >>> PHP does not do it! >>> Why? Could it be that complicated to compile for 32 AND 64 bit? >> >> Why don't Microsoft do it? All the Linuxes and Unixes does that. > This is a typical response of Linux user who brings strictly no > explanation to my question. > Jesuit Response: You answer a question with another question. > > Apache makes 64 bit binaries for Windows > MySQL makes 64 bit binaries for Windows > PHP does not. With PHP you don't really gain anything by running 64bit and ms-windows isn't a real 64bit environment, mainly a 64bit kernel with a few 64bit tools. Also Zend don't provide binaries to any other operating system, so having those 32bit binaries is just an extra service for the OS which don't by default have a simple mean to install a development environment. -- //Aho