Topic: VC6, VC7.1 and VC9

[Mitron]

I'm under the assumption that in order to build a stable system, Apache, PHP and MySQL all have to be built using the same VC version. In addition, any other application (i.e. Imagemagick) must also use the same build environment.

If this is indeed the case, it's rather disheartening to see that MySQL and Imagemagick use VC7. This means it's pretty much impossible to use a complete VC6 build if you plan on running MySQL and/or ImageMagick.

The only stable option would be to custom build MySQL and ImageMagick using a VC9 environment and grab the VC9 builds of PHP and Apache. Am I correct in this assumption?

[glsmith]

Mysql is a separate entity, do not see reason it cannot be anything since it is communicated with through a socket. Imagemagick I am not sure about. PHP loads into Apache as a module so there it does matter. VC6 modules seem to run fine in VC9 Apache, but not the other way around.

[James Blond]

MySQL runs alone no matter which version, you can use all. As Gregg wrote. PHP uses named pipes or TCP to connect to MySQL.
ImageMagick depends if you using it as an extension in php or external programm. If you use ImageMagick as an external programm there a no difference in stability using VC6 or VC9 build of apache and / or PHP.