Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/08/07 18:16

Jim Carlock wrote:

> And finally, is PHP run by Microsoft? There are no Linux/Unix
> binaries?

Providing binaries for "Linux/Unix" opens up a huge can of worms. Take a
look at a variety of Linux distributions. You'll find:

- the version of Apache varies between them;
- the versions of major libraries vary between them;
- they support different architectures (x86, Sparc, PowerPC, etc)

A single PHP binary build could not work universally on all Linux
distributions because of these variables. So you have two options:

1. Download the source and build it yourself; or

2. Get a binary copy of PHP from your Linux distribution -- the
vast majority of distros include at least one version of PHP.
(Many contain both PHP 4 *and* 5.)

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