Re: mysql.dll won't load [message #175020 is a reply to message #175013] |
Wed, 03 August 2011 15:56 |
The Natural Philosoph
Messages: 993 Registered: September 2010
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A.Reader wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:03:54 -0400,
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
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>> On 8/2/2011 2:51 PM, Puzzled wrote:
>>> The other day, I ended up having to reinstall XP from the metal
>>> up, and thus also Apache (1.3.27), PHP (5.2.17), and MySQL (5.1)
>>>
>>> For some reason PHP isn't loading some of the dlls. Phpinfo
>>> shows that it's loading my ini file and that extension_dir is
>>> correct. I have the dll entries uncommented in the ini file and
>>> it appears to be loading bz2, gd, and zip, but not mcrypt, mhash,
>>> mysql, pspell, or sockets.
>>>
>>> I presume I'm forgetting something, but I can't imagine what it
>>> might be, especially with such a funny pattern. I don't see
>>> anything in the install docs that ring a bell.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>> I think all of these require external libraries. Are those libraries
>> installed and available to the PHP process?
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> Thanks Jerry, that's what it was -- I hadn't reinstalled VC6 yet
> since I'm not doing much C these days. And since of course I
> already had it installed when I started working with PHP, it
> never crossed my mind that it was involved.
>
> I think the dependencies should be more clearly spelled out,
> especially for the sake of people who don't happen to own the
> relevant compiler and therefore the libs. I'm not sure I'd even
> know where to begin looking, if I needed a free copy of the libs.
This is of course where a Linux style packaging system and open source
libraries really scores.
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