A while back
Mathew Turland posted a guide for getting a custom version of PHP compiled on a Windows machine.
At the encouragement of Elizabeth Smith, I went through the process (not-so-recently as of this blog entry) of compiling PHP on Windows.
He gives his "laundry list" of things to download/have access to and the
link to Elizabeth's tutorial handy.
Matthew found a few differences in his compile - an issue with IPv6 support and a pathing problem with the scripts trying to find libmysql.dll. He also throws in his instructions on getting aspell support compiled in.
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