PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library, when running unit tests

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Adam Beňko picture Adam Beňko · Jul 3, 2018 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

when I try to run my unit tests, I get this error

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'bz2' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\bz2 (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_bz2.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\curl (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'fileinfo' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\fileinfo (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_fileinfo.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd2' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\gd2 (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_gd2.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gettext' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\gettext (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_gettext.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mbstring' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\mbstring (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_mbstring.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'exif' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\exif (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_exif.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mysqli' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\mysqli (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_mysqli.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_mysql' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\pdo_mysql (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_pdo_mysql.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_sqlite' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\pdo_sqlite (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_pdo_sqlite.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_openssl.dll' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\php_openssl.dll (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_php_openssl.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_ftp.dll' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\php_ftp.dll (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_php_ftp.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Cannot open '\xampp\php\extras\browscap.ini' for reading in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'bz2' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\bz2 (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_bz2.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\curl (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_curl.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'fileinfo' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\fileinfo (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_fileinfo.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd2' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\gd2 (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_gd2.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gettext' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\gettext (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_gettext.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mbstring' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\mbstring (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_mbstring.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'exif' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\exif (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_exif.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mysqli' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\mysqli (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_mysqli.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_mysql' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\pdo_mysql (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_pdo_mysql.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_sqlite' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\pdo_sqlite (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_pdo_sqlite.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_openssl.dll' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\php_openssl.dll (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_php_openssl.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_ftp.dll' (tried: \xampp\php\ext\php_ftp.dll (The specified module could not be found.), \xampp\php\ext\php_php_ftp.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found.)) in Unknown on line 0

Could somebody help me ? Thanks. Running in PHPstorm, Win 10

Answer

kavinda picture kavinda · Mar 25, 2019

You may need to edit your php.ini file and restart the server. Add absolute paths in php.ini configuration. It worked for xampp server in my windows 8.1 machine.
example:
extension_dir="\xampp\php\ext" to extension_dir="C:\xampp\php\ext"
Reference: How to fix PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'ext\\php_curl.dll'?

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