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Hi all,
a week ago I've opened a respective ticket on the php-src bugtracker[1]
to ask what is going on with pdo_dblib on Windows. Apparently the
extension is no longer shipped with the official Windows builds for many
years (roughly dropped as of PHP 5.3 or 5.4), and I consider it unlikely
that anybody still builds this extension on Windows for new PHP versions.
From the PHP manual[2]:
| If it is not possible to use SqlSrv, you can use the PDO_ODBC driver
| to connect to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases, as the native
| Windows DB-LIB is ancient, thread un-safe and no longer supported by
| Microsoft.
So unless there are objections, I suggest to remove the Windows specific
bits of this extension from php-src (i.e. config.w32, and a couple of
Windows specific lines in the C code). If this requires an RFC, I'm
willing to pursue the process.
Thoughts?
[1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15176>
[2] <https://www.php.net/pdo_dblib>
Christoph