Installing PHP extensions on Windows
I am using a Windows XP Home Edition. I need to install a few extensions to PHP -- memcache, APC, .etc. And I would very much like to use PECL to make this happen. The problem is PECL takes it for granted that I will have certain programs on my computer. On another post, I read, for instance, that you need to have Microsoft Visual Studio C++ installed on your machine. However, the new version of Visual Studio, which I downloaded, does not have msdev.exe and instead uses vcbuild.exe, which has a completely different api and fails to compile the .dsp files that come with these modules.
So I tried to find a script that would upgrade the dsp to work with vcbuild.exe...and it turns out vcbuild.exe can do that, but of course that didn't pan out.
Another thing I tried was to find a make script for Windows (nmake2make). But there was no make file in the module's root folder.
I tried also downloading Cygwin and MinGW in hopes of finding a build script that would work as simply as in *nix operating systems, but to no avail.
How else do I use install PHP extensions on a Windows machine? Can anyone help me out of this predicament?
Answer
For all peoples coming here to download the dll extension files.
This is the link to the PHP extension download link http://windows.php.net/download/
And this is a list of PHP extensions to download: http://pecl.php.net/package-search.php
For core extensions, or if you cant find any on pecl.php.net, download PHP from a zip http://windows.php.net/download/ and look inside of /ext and copy them to your local php /ext folder.