I'm playing a bit with MSI (Windows Installer) packages, to get a 'PHP-doc SDK' for Windows.

It will include:

- PHP CLI, configured and ready to use (from Cygwin)
- OpenJade (some builds still need it), configured and ready to use
- Cygwin, a minimal install to get you running (this is hard to determine)

Because I do this work on an old computer with Windows 98 and only the SDK's I can get for free from Microsoft's website (my other computers run Linux and Mac OS X Panther :-) ), and I knew nothing about MSI's until yesterday, I would be very happy if I could show you something on Sunday evening.

Greetings,

Jan Fabry

Jan Fabry wrote:
Would it be possible to create a special version of Cygwin, with only those apps we need for building? The only extra thing you need now is (Open)Jade, all the other tools come with the standard Cygwin. If we could add (Open)Jade to Cygwin, remove the other applications, and call the result 'The PHP-Doc Windows SDK', would that help some people? We could also add PHP to the mix of course, I don't know how hard that is to set up on Windows.

This is just an idea, I don't have any experience with extending Cygwin or changing the installer.

Greetings,

Jan Fabry

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