Compiling a PHP extension as non-thread-safe - php

I am trying to compile the imagemagick (imagick) extension to use in a non-thread-safe environment on windows.
I am using PHP 5.3.10 and have set up Visual C++ express as my compiling environment.
The problem is that I am using a non-thread-safe version of PHP as a FCGI module in Apache 2.2.
Thus, my PHP is supplied with a php5.lib and not a php5ts.lib. I believe this is the reason why I am getting these errors:
imagick.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__tsrm_mutex_alloc referenced in function _zm_startup_imagick
I have only ever built and compiled things on linux, so am not too sure how to do this on a windows environment.
How can I compile the extension so that it is non-thread-safe?
I downloaded the threadsafe binary of PHP 5.3.10 to get a copy of php5ts.lib. I was then able to compile the extension.
I am guessing that setting the ZTS preprocessor directive to either 1 or 0 would cause the extension to compile as either threadsafe or non-thread-safe. (Not too sure about this, so if someone could let me know if this is correct or not, it would be much appreciated. :) )
I then set up a virtual machine running Windows 7 and installed the latest version of WAMP. Reason being that it used a threadsafe version of PHP.
I placed the dll in the ext folder in the PHP installation and enabled it in php.ini. However, even after trying both the ts and nts version in WAMP, I would get:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.10/ext/imagick.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
in Unknown on line 0
But the thing is that c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.10/ext/imagick.dll' does exist, and yes I have checked this a lot of times.
I then downgraded ImageMagick to 6.6.2-10-Q16, but still see the same problem.
The same issue occurs on my dev machine running a nts version of PHP 5.3.10 on Apache 2.2 (all installed manually).
Looks like I could be wrong regarding the ZTS preprocessor. If I set ZTS=0 and compile, using dependency walker on the compiled dll still shows that it requires php5ts.dll which is only present on threadsafe versions of PHP.
I did more tinkering with dependency walker and found that I had to statistically link to msvc100d.dll. I then removed ZTS in the preprocessor definition and was able to compile using php5.lib instead of php5ts.dll. I think this should get me a non-ts dll.
However, when loading the extension, I am still getting:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Invalid library (maybe not a PHP library) 'imagick.dll' in Unknown on line 0
And errors from dependency walker:
Error: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in an implicitly dependent module.
Error: Modules with different CPU types were found.
Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found.
Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.
Installed visual c++ express 2008 and compiled using platform toolkit v90, but still facing the same issues.
Any tips appreciated :)
Solution Found! See my answer.

Got it! I hope this can help those compiling php extensions on windows in the future. What I have done is based on: https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild
Note: I read an answer on this site that said compiling PHP extensions by itself on windows is unsupported. Based on my experiments yesterday, it seems to be a lot of work as well, so I am using the PHP build process.
The best way is to use the PHP build process.
Install Visual C++ Express 2008 (any version will do, but express is free) and Windows SDK 6.1 (note that we want the 6.1 version not anything older or newer).
Install the SVN client tools if you haven't done so and restart for your PATH variable to take effect.
Get the PHP SDK binary tools and extract it to C:\php-sdk.
Start the CMD Shell under Microsoft Windows SDK v6.1 in your start menu and run cd C:\php-sdk.
Run setenv /x86 /xp /release this creates a 32-bit release. You can use /x64 to build a 64-bit release (I have not tried this).
run bin\phpsdk_setvars.bat
run bin\phpsdk_buildtree.bat php53dev
Download the PHP source code and extract it to C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86 so that you end up with C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\php5.3-xyz
Download the latest deps and extract everything to C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86. You may be prompted to overwrite any existing folders, so press yes.
run cd C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86
Check out the latest version of your extension from the svn repository: svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/pecl/imagick/trunk pecl/imagick I am checking out imagick here.
Install any dependencies. In my case, I need to install ImageMagick, so I downloaded the latest recommended windows binary. You will need to restart after installation to update your PATH variable, but you can do this after you have compiled. Make sure you install the C/C++ headers and includes as well.
Copy the contents of the includes directory from the ImageMagick install directory to C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\deps\include.
Copy the contents of the lib directory from the ImageMagick install directory to C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\deps\lib
Now, let's build: run cd C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\php5.3-xyz then buildconf then configure --help. Look at the help properly. It will show you all config flags and any avaliable extensions to enabled. In my case, since I added imagick, I had an option called --with-imagick
Run config: configure --enable-cli --with-imagick=shared --disable-zts If you want to build a non-thread-safe binary use --disable-zts, otherwise remove that configuration flag. I am not sure why, but sometimes extensions use the --with-myextension flag and sometimes --enable-myextension, so check configure --help for the flag to use. If you add =shared after the extension flag, it will be compiled as a separate DLL, which si what we want.
Compile: run nmake then nmake snap.
Done :) Check C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\php-5.3.10\Release (non-thread-safe) or C:\php-sdk\php53dev\vc9\x86\php-5.3.10\Release_TS (thread-safe). Your compiled binaries should be in there. The compiled extensions (pecl), should be in a ZIP file similiar to pecl-5.3.10-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip. Open this file and extract the extensio DLL to your ext folder in your PHP installation.
Enable the PHP extension and restart your webserver. Run phpinfo() and check that the extension is enabled.
If the extension does not work properly, make sure you reboot to update your PATH variable. In my case, I need to have the imagemagick install directory in my PATH variable.
???
Profit!

Is there a reason you need to compile? Why not download? It's usually much simpler/quicker on Windows.
VC6: http://www.sk89q.com/2010/03/vc6-windows-binaries-for-imagick-2-3-0/
VC9: http://valokuva.org/builds/

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How to install pthreads on a phpfarm php installation

Documenting my struggles to help others and hopefully get some feedback on how I could have done it better.
The command pecl install pthreads fails due to the php installed on my ubuntu 13.04 box not having zts configured.
Options:
1) The ubuntu respository does not have a php package with zts enabled. As of this post, ubuntu only has php 5.4.9 in it's repository (Released: 22 Nov 2012). It is possible to compile a php version from source - which I eventually did (see below), but..
2) I .. ALSO .. wanted to use phpfarm for the ability to run different versions of PHP on my local setup. On github, there is Christian Weiske's original contribution here (phpfarm) and a fork that he has contributed to, by François Poirotte - also called phpfarm. Francois' fork has a few more options to configure ('post-install customization') but I was not able to make that work with a PECL extension. I'm curious to know if misunderstood how to do that, because it looks to me that it just simply does not take PECL commands.
3). Prior to recompiling php from source, I loaded phpfarm (tried both versions), enabled php-fpm (FastCGI) and was able to get my apache2 server to use a phpfarm version (5.5.10) which showed up in a phpinfo() output. But the php-cli always showed the original php version (5.4.9) in the cli (run: php -v). Running (run: php -i | grep php.ini) showed /etc/php5/cli but I had previously removed php5 and aptitude show php5 returned a state of 'not installed.' I even renamed the /etc/php5 directory to see if I could force the system to use the phpfarm php version. Obviously, this is incorrect thinking and I went on to simply compile php 5.6 from source. But, is there something more to do to get a phpfarm php to be used in the cli? I read that the cli loads it's configuration file on a per command basis, unlike the apache2. If I could have run the 5.5.10 version (configured with zts) then I could have then done pecl install pthreads and then re-complied the phpfarm 5.5.10 version with pthreads enabled. Although it appears I will be able to run various versions of php in the apache server, will I ever be able to switch-phpfarm to another version and see it working in the php-cli? Also, I was uncertain on where I could have loaded a pthreads file for the phpfarm compile process to find and use it; could I have done it that way?
4) This stackoverflow post, essentially posted by Joe Watkins - the developer of pThreads is a perfect how-to on getting pThreads installed on a Ubuntu system that has had php configured with zts (Zend Thread Safety). (Thanks Joe!)
A nice tutorial on using phpfarm configured with fast-cgi and the apache server to help run websites under different php configurations.
So what gives with php, php-cli and the phpfarm?
I'm not sure about phpfarm, but do know of another solution ...
Multi
A tool for maintaining multiple installations of PHP in multiple configurations
https://github.com/datingvip/multi
This is a bit more user orientated, will allow you to build many configurations and versions of php, any tagged release of php, and any patched version from any fork of php-src.
In addition, because I wrote it, it will install pthreads for you.
git clone https://github.com/datingvip/multi
cd multi
VERSION=5.5.10 DBG=no-debug ZTS=zts ./php.multi
The above commands will yield an installation of PHP (in one suitable configuration, of one version) in /opt/php.
Look at php.defaults for configuration options and adjust before building
Should configuration fail on, for example, something related to a library like libxml2, it will usually be the case that
sudo apt-get install library-dev
Where library is replaced with the name of the library holding up the build, will fix the problem for you. If it does not, a quick google should get you going again.
Once the build is complete
source /path/to/multi/php.env 5.5.10
Note: multi will always install pthreads for any zts version automatically
I hope that gets you somewhere ...

Imagick php windows

I am trying to use iMagick in Symfony2.
I am using PHP 5.4.16 and all i have done :
1-Copy php_imagick_nts.dll from php5-4 directory from the extracted http://valokuva.org/~mikko/imagick-php54-php53.tgz to php/ext .
2-Rename it to php_imagick.dll and add the “extension=php_imagick.dll” to php.ini
3-Create a page like this :
<?php
$a = new Imagick();
?>
but i receive this :
Fatal error: Class ‘Imagick’ not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\info.php
When I tried to use this in a symfony controller, the error occur again:
FatalErrorException: Error: Class 'Imagick' not found
Unfortunately the details about imagick extension not appear in output of "phpinfo()"
Is this version is incompatible with PHP 5.4.16 ?! If yes,what version i must use? Where? Thank for any help...
After trying many solutions, none seemed to work.
I managed to install it on Windows 10 64-bit, Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.6, but I think it should work for all versions.
Hopefully you will have no problem installing Imagick for PHP.
Step 1) Gather information
First of all you should gather some information of your PHP environment.
You can easily see your PHP information with the function phpinfo()
The information you need:
Architecture: x86(32-bit) or x64(64-bit)
PHP-version: you can find this in the header of the phpinfo() output.
PHP Extension Build: This string contains 2 important parts:
NTS or TS
VCx (like VC11)
Loaded Configuration File: the path to your used php.ini file.
Step 2) Download Binary
You can download the binary from the official site of ImageMagick. I recommend you to read the small introduction under the "Windows Binary Release" to be certain which "bits-per-pixel" to choose from(8 or 16).
Downloading the latest version should be just fine.
Make sure this binary is the same architecture as your PHP architecture that you have gathered in step 1.
Step 3) Install Binary
Install the binary to your phpx.x.xx\bin file. For example: C:\wamp64\bin\php\php5.6.16\bin. (This can be any folder, but for the convenience I put in here)
Make sure "Add application directory to your system path" is checked. Should be checked by default though.
Step 4) Download PHP extension
The DLL PHP extension is available through the windows pecl php site
Again, you can just click the latest version.
Next of, choose the right version based on the gathered information.
For example: php_imagick-3.4.1-5.6-nts-vc11-x64.zip
This can be stripped into components:
php_imagick-3.4.1 - This is the php imagick extension with the version. This is not important.
5.6 - This is your PHP version and should be equal to the PHP-version you are using, which you have determed in step 1.
NTS - This should be equal to the information of your PHP Extension Build that you have gathered in step 1.
VC11 - This should also be equal to the information of your PHP Extension Build that you have gathered in step 1.
x64 - This the architecture of the extension and should be equal to your PHP architecture that you have gathered in step 1.
Step 5) Extract PHP Extension
After you have downloaded the file, you should open the .zip file and look for a file named: php_imagick.dll.
Extract this file to phpx.x.xx\ext.
Make sure the .dll file is fully accessable by you. Sometimes you need to explicity unblock the file.
Step 6) Activate PHP extension
To activate the extension in PHP, you should state in your php.ini file that you want to use this extension.
You have gathered the path to your used php.ini file in step 1.
Add the line extension=php_imagick.dll to your php.ini
Step 7) Restart your PC
Just to make sure, restart your PC so all Environment Paths will be correctly loaded.
This should install Imagick correctly with the latest versions and the right architecture.
Imagick should also be listed in phpinfo() with the appropriate "ImageMagick supported formats" (Just make sure it is not empty).
I spent many hours trying to make Imagick work, finally I got it.
My installation instructions
Install WAMP 32bit (even if you running 64bit system you must use 32bit version of WAMP)
Install ImageMagick to C:/imagemagick, use this file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2mhrhd7sp0ilzk/ImageMagick-6.8.0-3-Q16-windows-dll.exe
Put DLL with Imagick into extension folder of PHP, e.g. D:\wamp32\bin\php\php5.4.16\ext, I used this file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ayankf850l08rm2/php_imagick.dll
In php.ini put line "SetEnv MAGICK_HOME C:/imagemagick" without quotes
Better restart PC
I use Wamp 2.4, PHP 5.4.16, Apache 2.4.4, ImageMagick 6.8.0-3 2012-10-24 Q16, Imagick 3.1.0RC2 - all 32bit, OS Win8 64bit
Now it should work and you should see Imagick extension loaded in phpinfo.
I tried a lot of versions of ImageMagick, but newer versions didn't work, 6.8.0-3-Q16-windows-dll works fine.
Symfony2
In Symfony2 use Imagick like this:
$im = new \Imagick('image.jpg');
I'm quite sure this is to do with not having the module loaded correctly or the .dll being placed in a improper location.
You can use PHP's internal function extension_loaded() to check prior to using the class,
<?php
/**
*
**/
if (!extension_loaded('Imagick')) {
//Load some error.
}
?>
That's a method you can check if the module is even being reconsigned by PHP at all.
PHP also provides a function to view your current extensions get_loaded_extensions():
<?php
/**
* Get an Array of current
* PHP extensions for debugging
**/
print_r( get_loaded_extensions() );
?>
Make sure you do:
Check your correct extension library folder location within your phpinfo()
Perform a hard restart of your xmapp/wamp server.
If you're on PHP 5.4 or upwards (Like yourself!), see site below for the updated binaries
After researching too, Imagick does seem to have trouble with PHP 5.3 or upwards; Download new DLL's from this site below (Unofficial):
http://www.peewit.fr/imagick/
Also found other StackOverFlow Articles that have the same problem:
Stackoverflow: Trying to get imagick running on PHP 5.4.3 at Windows x64
Alternatively you're able to use the GD extension to more or less accomplish some of the same functions you require. I do believe GD is a more widely supported module/extension in more recent versions of PHP.
For those using Windows 10 with PHP 7 the following might help:
determine whether your Windows is threadsafe (see the output of phpinfo()) and 32 or 64 bits.
This page contains matching sets for each php version and threadsafe and 32/64 settings. Download both the Imagick and the Imagemagick files.
Follow for Imagick the instructions at the bottom of that page.
For ImageMagick the instructions on that page are not correct. You can put the dll files anywhere but you need to refer to them with the MAGICK_HOME windows environment variable. You may need to reboot for the change of the environment to have effect.
I use :Wamp 2.4, PHP 5.4.16, Apache 2.4.4, ImageMagick 6.8.0-3 2012-10-24 Q16, Imagick 3.1.0RC2 - all 32bit, OS Win7 32bit
Instructions given by fmstoun worked for me perfectly.
Since I spent a lot of hours trying to make the dll work, I wanted to add on to steps given by fmstoun.
Do restart your PC.
Use the full path to the image, for example:
$image = new Imagick($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/images/test.jpg');
Make sure your system environment has 1 single entry for : C:/imagemagick and no more environment variables for imagemagick. If any previous installations have the path, then remove those paths and restart your PC
Make sure http : / / localhost/ of wamp shows 'imagick' as loaded extension
If extension is loaded properly, it has to show up in phpinfo() also as:
imagick module | enabled
ImageMagick version|ImageMagick 6.8.0-3 2012-10-24 Q16 and some more information about imagemagick.
Considering the date of this post, the latest version of imagemagick provided on the official site is: ImageMagick-6.8.8-1-Q16-x86-dll.exe
which fails to load the extension (as seen in apache error logs after a restart).
Hence use the version mentioned by fmstoun.
Hope this answer saves couple of hours of effort and saves time required to go through around 15 SO questions on same topic and also different forums.
UPDATE for those 2019 also using WAMP, a much more simplier method of ImageMagick are as follows:
Go to https://mlocati.github.io/articles/php-windows-imagick.html.
Grab a copy of the .dll extension file of your appropriate setup, choose a "Threads Safe" version.
Grab the corresponding ImageMagick using the link on the same row and install it.
Copy only the .dll file to the extensions folder of your install of WAMP, usually C:\wamp\bin\apache2.4\ext\
Restart apache.
Hope this helps.
Sorry for my bad english:
1º Install Appserv
Filename: "appserv-win32-2.5.10.exe"
URL download: h*ttp://www.appservnetwork.com/ (without *)
Apache port: 8080
2º Download PHP 5.3(Apache 2.2 doesn't support superior)
Filename: "php-5.3.29-Win32-VC9-x86.zip"
How?: Thread Safe
URL Download: h*ttp://windows.php.net/download#php-5.6 (without *)
3º Stop Apache
4º Delete all contents in the folder "..\AppServ\php5"
5º Copy the zip contents to "..\AppServ\php5"
6º Add line
date.timezone = "America/Buenos_Aires" (This is my zone, find yours in php page)
to the "php.ini" in "c:\Windows\php.ini"
to avoid date error in PHP
7º Start Apache
=============================
IMAGIC(Once PHP 5.3 is installed)
1º Instalññ Image magic 6.7(Not superior, PHP 5.3 doesn't support)
Filename: "ImageMagick-6.7.9-9-Q16-windows-dll.exe"
URL download: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/ImageMagick/binaries/
2º Download Imagic
Filename: "php_imagick-3.1.2-5.3-ts-vc9-x86.zip"
URL download: http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/imagick/3.1.2/
3º In the dir "php5/ext" add the file "php_imagick.dll" from the last zip download(other files doesn't care)
4º Add line
extension=php_imagick.dll
to the "php.ini" in "c:\Windows\php.ini"
5º Restart Apache

Compiling a php extension into a dll

I've been attempting for a last few days to make use of the operator overloading extension (pecl.php.net/package/operator), which has apparently been updated recently to be compatible with 5.3 and 5.4.
I've tried compiling it in windows (64-bit Windows 7) using this guide, with PHP 5.4 and Windows SDK 7.1 without luck. So I tried doing it with PHP 5.3 and Windows SDK 6.1 and I can get it to successfully compile with the config "configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-operator" and then "nmake". The problem is that it doesn't produce a dll file for the operator extension, instead what I get is this, which is apparently useless for me. What I want is a dll I can use for my local WampServer setup.
I had had fatal errors when trying to use operator-0.4.1 from the pecl.php.net site, so instead I downloaded and compiled from the git repository (github.com/php/pecl-php-operator), which is what produced the .obj, .idb and .sbr files.
You have to do
configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-operator=shared
otherwise it's statically compiled.
Anyway, if you want to use it with WampServer, the binary will probably not work because if I'm not mistaken WampServer is compiled against the VC10 C runtime library, while the guide you linked to instructs you to use Visual Studio 2008 (which comes with VC9). You'll need to use the VC10 compiler (I think it's bundled with Windows SDK 7.1, so you can download just that and skip Visual Studio).
Into extension root path, and modify config.w32
EXTENSION('redis', sources); to EXTENSION('redis', sources,true);
buildconf --force
configure --enable-xx
nmake
you'll get php-redis.dll

CentOS - Mongo class not found in PHP

I need the MongoDB PHP driver on my CentOS 5.4 machine. My PHP version is 5.1.6. I downloaded the RPM and installed it. That created several files in /usr/bin directory. I copied
/usr/bin/mongo
to
/usr/lib/php/modules
which was what extension_dir showed on doing phpinfo();.
I also added
extension=mongo.so
in /etc/php.ini.
However on executing my PHP script, i still get
Mongo class not found.
What's going wrong here ?
Also, my phpinfo() shows PHP version 5.1.6 whereas running PHP from command line shows 5.3.3. Could anything be wrong with that ?
Thanks in advance.
You're saying your webserver and command line PHP report different versions. These are going to be installed in different locations, and their extensions are API incompatible with each other.
When you installed the php_mongo extension, it may have used the command line php to determine the directory to install the extension to.
Make sure you have the correct php_mongo for the php version of your webserver, and it is in the correct extensions directory. (get the directory from the php.ini returned by phpinfo())
I hope you realise PHP 5.1 is also many years out of date. Unless you have a specific reason to use a version that old, you should also look at upgrading to a more recent version.
Edit:
Just read your comment "I must also mention that /usr/bin/mongo is a binary executable file but its not having a .so extension. Im copying it as is to /usr/lib/php/modules"
No no no! :)
This is the mongo command line client. This is not the PHP extension!
You can run a find /* -name "mongo.so" to see where the installer put the file, this will probably also give you an indication of which version of PHP it was installed for.
It looks as though you are confusing the RPM-packages for the MongoDB server with the requirements to install the MongoDB PHP driver. The PHP driver provides access to the server from your PHP applications, and does not install any command line tools.
restart httpd !
yum service httpd restart

Install APC on Windows

How can I install APC on Windows? I am using PHP 5.3, Windows 7 x64.
I used
pecl install apc
I got
C:\PHP>pecl install apc
downloading APC-3.0.19.tgz ...
Starting to download APC-3.0.19.tgz (115,735 bytes) ............
done: 115,735 bytes 47 source files, building
WARNING: php_bin c:\php\php.exe appears to have a suffix \php.exe, but config
variable php_suffix does not match running: msdev APC.dsp /MAKE "APC - Release"
ERROR: Did not understand the completion status returned from msdev.exe.
Installing an extension with the pecl command means :
downloading the sources
compiling them
And, generally speaking, a windows machine doesn't have what's required to compile software like PHP and/or PHP extensions.
A better / easier solution, in your case, would probably be to find a pre-compiled .dll of the extension, that matches your system and your version of PHP.
With a bit of luck, maybe one of the versions provided on http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ could be OK ?
(It's what kind of acts as replacement of the old pecl4win, until the extensions for windows are available on windows.php.net)
For more informations about which version you should use, take a look at the Which version do I choose? section, in the left side-bar of http://windows.php.net/
It is not really important, whether you are running Windows 32-bit or 64-bit version. What matters is what Apache (webserver) version you have installed (32/64). Since lots of PHP extensions (like APC) are not available for 64-bit systems, most common setup is as follows:
Operating system 32 or 64-bit (not really important). Apache 32-bit will run easily on Windows 64-bit. The difference is, that for 32-bit apache you MUST install PHP 32-bit. Once you install 64-bit PHP, you may find difficult to install some extensions - there are almost no extensions available for 64-bit PHP platform.
therefore your webserver should be 32-bit if you care about special extensions, like APC, Imagick etc... Also you need to know if your apache is thread safe (TS) or not thread safe (NTS) and whether it has been compiled in Visual Studio 6 (VC6) or newser Visual Studio 2008 (VC9). You will easily find all this info from phpinfo() function.
as for the APC, some nice compilation for Windows are available from http://dev.freshsite.pl/php-accelerators/apc.html.
For php 5.3 you use php.net/pierre/php_apc-3.1.10-5.3-vc9-x86.zip.
Download it and copy php_apc.dll to your php ext directory. (I choose the file under ts I have thread safe php installation. There is also an apc dll file for non thread safe.)
Add extension=php_apc.dll into your php.ini file
Restart your web server
Run phpinfo() to see if it's installed or not.
I am using php 5.4 and I downloaded php.net/pierre/php_apc-3.1.10-5.4-vc9-x86.zip and its working fine.
Hope this will help mate.Good luck.
Also, make sure that the compiled version from here http://downloads.php.net/pierre/
matches your php version, otherwise the extension will not load (php v. 5.2.17 requires php_apc.dll v 5.2.17.17 - which doesn't seem to be available as of this writing - I had to downgrade the php version to play with apc).
Another point, pierre's zip packages, at least the one I downloaded, did not include the management script. you can get it from here: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC - select the version you downloaded, then navigate to Browse Source, then find your version in the 'tags' folder. the apc.php script should be there.
There's no available version for php > 5.4.
I'm using APCu instead. Just download the dll and reference it in php.ini.
This website offers updated dll and installers for Apache, PHP and APC compiled to work on windows 64 bit. I've been using it for a while and it works fine. You could an APC version compatible with PHP 5.3.22 here

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