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PHP 4.4.8 for windows

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Does anybody know where I can find the windows ZIP package for PHP4..4.8
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Re: PHP 4.4.8 for windows

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here http://www.php.net/downloads.php#v4
though they are not available yet.
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I'm actually not sure they'll release 4.4.8 for windows. I suspect they've only released 4.4.8 for the sake of web hosts who haven't had chance to upgrade yet. The source was released over 3 weeks ago now... I couldn't imagine why they'd be waiting much longer to release a windows version ;)
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Re: PHP 4.4.8 for windows

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I see.

I was hoping this new version would contain the latest version of the GD library.
Do you know how I could upgrade GD from 2.0.28 to 2.0.33 or 34
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Thank you for the link.
However, there is no dll ready to use in PHP as far as I can see. I have downloaded the windows .exe file. This installed many files but I have no idea what to do with them.
It seems I have to build it using MSVC... What is MSVC?
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Ahhh, of course. Forgot about that, sorry. MSVC I think stands for Microsoft Visual C, neverless a compiler to create the binary. Perhaps you need to bookmark http://www.libgd.org/Downloads or upgrade the php-build youre using... Good luck tho.
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Yeah I'd probably look into downloading those PHP sources and compiling them yourself ;) I'm pretty sure they must compile under windows almost as easily as they compile under UNIX. Perhaps if you used cygwin you could just compile them following the UNIX compile instructions, although you may have a dependency nightmare doing so.
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