Guess that page should be removed as apparently the windows docs are now maintained in a wiki; http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild

The build page on the wiki also mentions the need for a php-sdk, with 
files like bison.simple however i cannot see any links to download 
this sdk, i've had a hunt around the wiki and cannot see any links 
for this resource.

See: 

http://pecl2.php.net/downloads/php-windows-builds/php-libs/binary-tools.zip

Thanks for the info,

but I really think this should be fixed both in the PHP-Docs page and in the wiki. I've spent more than 2 hours trying to find those files.

Ciao :-)

I've added a link in the wiki just underneath the SDK links.

added to the links

This bug is not closed because these docs:

 - have broken links
 - have no reference to the wiki
 - have no reference to binary-tools.zip (should it?)

And people mention that the wiki is also incomplete although this bug 
does not deal with that.

I removed most of the documentation and instead refer to an external 
guide and the Windows wiki. However, this bug is not closed until the 
documentation is rewritten to reflect current practices. 

Another source (especially considering the author ;)

 - http://forums.clantemplates.com/showthread.php?t=145099

This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.

Re-opened for now, I'm going to do abit of re-order of the general structure on this one.

Closing this for the same reason as bug #50779.