Install PHP extension on Windows

Question

I'm using Windows XP Home Edition. I need to install some PHP extensions like memcache, APC etc. I would very much like to be able to use PECL to achieve this goal. The problem is that PECL defaults to thinking that I already have certain programs installed on my computer. In another post, I read a tip about needing to install Microsoft Visual Studio C on the machine, for example. However, the new version of Visual Studio I downloaded does not have msdev.exe, but instead uses vcbuild.exe, which has a completely different API and cannot compile the .dsp files that come with these modules.

So I tried to find a script that would upgrade the dsp to be compatible with vcbuild.exe... turns out vcbuild.exe could do it, but of course without success.

Another thing I tried was looking for a build script for Windows (nmake2make). But there is no make file in the module's root directory.
I also tried downloading Cygwin and MinGW in hopes of finding a simple build script like in *nix OS, but with no success.

How to install PHP extension on Windows machine? Can anyone help me out of this dilemma?

Answer 1

For all those who come to download dll expansion files.

This is the link to the PHP extension download link: http://windows.php.net/download/

This is a list of PHP extensions to download: http://pecl.php .net/package-search.php

For core extensions, or if you can't find any extensions on pecl.php.net, you can download them from the zip package http://windows.php.net/download/ PHP and look into the /ext folder and copy them to your local php /ext folder.