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Does PHP work on Novell?

Jan 22nd, 2000 16:51
Nathan Wallace, Lynn Caco, Onno Benschop, Adam Thompson

It probably can, but doesn't yet.

Apache have just added a Novell port with version 1.3.11.

Here are some comments to get you started should you want to write it
yourself.

Novell's SDK is available to anyone who wants it.  I believe there is a
one-time fee if you are not already a DeveloperNet or ParnetNet member
(around US$300, if memory serves me...)

The tricky part is getting a compiler.  The currently supported C
compiler is MetroWorks CodeWarrior for NetWare.  To the best of my
knowledge, no-one has produced a gcc with a NetWare back-end for
cross-compilation.  (Compiling directly on the NetWare box would be...
painful.)

Also to the best of my knowledge, the only currently supported Web
servers under NetWare are: Novonyx (Netscape) FastTrack Server and
Novonyx (Netscape) Enterprise Server.

The biggest problem would be porting the MySQL client libs, I think. 
Oracle already has good NetWare support, but that's not enough, really. 
I would expect that the only feasible way to integrate PHP on the
NetWare platform would be as an NSAPI module.  Which isn't quite ready
yet.