I have been having no luck at all compiling in Windows. It is an utter mess. Filepaths, different explanations all over the web... So, after many failures, and then almost success, I realized that when I did php -m toward the compiled version of php I was able to build, I had nearly zero php modules. But then I thought I could try it against the PHP built into Uniserver, and noticed that it lists both ftp and openssl. I was under the impression taht ftp_connect ssl was just a part of ftp, so, does this mean that if is part of Uniserver?