I’ve been trying to install apc on wamp 2.2 on a windows 7 x64 to no avail. I downloaded php_apc without memprotect and was able to select it in the task switcher on wamp, I also added the extension and the following:
[APC]
apc.enabled = 1
apc.shm_segments = 1
apc.shm_size = 64M
apc.max_file_size = 10M
apc.stat = 1
to php.ini, next, downloaded apc.php from http://svn.php.net, but my phpinfo() file doesn’t show apc no matter what I do, and apc.php says it isn’t running.
I've read about wamp being built on vc6 but on pierre's php extensions page I can't find any vc6 version anymore, plus I have php5.4.3 with the MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008) compiler, so I figure I must not install a vc6 version. But I can't find any information about wamp and alternative php cache (thats the full name!). All the pages where I've read about it make it seem very simple, but I can't make it work. I need apc to deal with the nicEdit image uploading, by the way. Any help would make me very, very happy!
Also, I notice a couple of things, many posts right here on this forum say that apc is not supported by php 5.4, and on other posts people say that for windows we should use vc6 versions either of php or its extensions. The thing is I'm using wamp as I said, and don't want to go through the process of installing php and apache independently. Even if I did, then what dll should I download (after searching a lot, as pecl doesn't provide dlls), also considering that I can't afford for a server other than apache and it is recommended not to install any vc9 version of php with apache's binaries? Again, any help is greatly appreciated.
Think I finally got it, @eis you were right about installing the correct x64bit extension. I downloaded the correct one from the list of extensions hosted in mediafire on this http://www.anindya.com/php-5-4-3-and-php-5-3-13-x64-64-bit-for-windows/ site. Now I can see apc is installed on phpinfo(); Thanks and goodbye. Will keep posting about the usage of apc though.
As a resolution - the dlls on pierres page seem to be 32-bit (x86). Since you have a 64-bit server, you need either a 64-bit dll, or switch to a 32-bit server installation.
The anindya.com page had a link to 64-bit extensions.