Error compiling mysqlnd_qc with apc

Running the command pecl install mysqlnd_qc to install the caching with APC enabled I receive the following error:

configure: error: APC is onlysupported if both APC and MySQL Query Cache are compiled statically
ERROR: `/var/tmp/mysqlnd_qc/configure --enable-mysqlnd-qc-apc=yes --enable-qc-memcache=no --enable-qc-sqlite=no' failed

Without the APC enabled it compiles fine...

PHP version: 5.3.17

Running on Amazon RDS.

What does it mean to compile APC and MySQL Query Cache statically?

How is it done?

Update 1:

As I haven't managed to compile mysqlnd_qc with APC, I tried compiling it with memcached. Here was an interesting issue. The ./configure command didn't recognize the the option the pecl gave for memcache. I found out that the option was entered incorrectly...

So I killed the pecl installation when it was asking for the options and ran the following commands myself:

sudo ./configure --enable-mysqlnd-qc-memcache --with-libmemcached-dir=/usr/
sudo make
sudo make install

So with memcached it now works.

If running on Fedora (I guess also RedHat and CentOS) there is available a rpm:

sudo yum install php-pecl-mysqlnd-qc

Update 2:

I managed to compile with APC, see the detailed answer below.

Solution

Well found the solution:

Here is what I did:

Get php 5.3.17:

wget https://github.com/php/php-src/archive/PHP-5.3.17.zip
unzip PHP-5.3.17.zip

Get mysqlnd_qc:

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/mysqlnd_qc-1.1.1.tgz
tar -zxvf http://pecl.php.net/get/mysqlnd_qc-1.1.1.tgz
mkdir -p php-src-PHP-5.3.17/ext/mysqlnd_qc
cp -R mysqlnd_qc-1.1.1/* php-src-PHP-5.3.17/ext/mysqlnd_qc

Get APC:

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.13.tgz
tar -xzvf APC-3.1.13.tgz
mkdir -p php-src-PHP-5.3.17/ext/apc
cp -R APC-3.1.13/* php-src-PHP-5.3.17/ext/apc/

Compile: (maybe don't need all on other systems)

sudo yum install bison
sudo yum install libxml2 libxml2-devel
sudo yum install autoconf213
sudo yum install httpd-devel
sudo yum install bzip2 lbzip2 bzip2-libs bzip2-devel

export PHP_AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf-2.13

./buildconf --force
make clean && make

(for me the linkage failed and had to add '-lpthread' to linkage)

make test
sudo make install

I used also the following 2 commands but I don't remember for what and when...

phpize
aclocal

Run the same ./configure as in phpinfo and add these options:

--with-mysql=mysqlnd --with-mysqli=mysqlnd --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --enable-mysqlnd-qc --enable-mysqlnd-qc-apc --enable-mysqlnd --enable-apc --enable-static=apc

All the --with must be replaced.