@matigo wow… That's a big system you're managing! Indeed, you probably need constant reminders or a big board which shows all your used and unused indices, so you can track the db's correct usage…
@jws a more pertinent question is that if the only thing needed is vc140blahblah.dll, why didn't a version from 9 or 11 suffice? Why does Windows environ have to be so upending that PHP7 and PHP 5…
You know what? It's done. The work is over. Fk it.
@jws Oh, and Xcode is a straightforward download and so are the additional tools. I had to install 3 versions of VC++ before I got the right one. What's the diff between VC++ 9, 11, and 14? Gawd knows!
@jws at least Apple ships with php, perl, python, apache etc.
I just wanted to install PHP. I had to jump through Olympic sized hoops to get that working!
Why does PHP 7 need VC runtime to run on Windows? Is it because @Microsoft doesn't have the balls to ship dev tools in their shitty little OS?