RE: problem loading mysql dlls

[astratton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I noticed you have c:\php\php524\ext in your PATH. I know Windows requires libmysql.dll (usually in the php binaries root directory, most likely c:\php\php524 in your case) to be in the system path somewhere [I usually copy to C:\WINDOWS on my local machine as I'm lazy).

I would double check that this file is available in one of the system paths either by copying to C:\WINDOWS or adding C:\php\php524 to your system path.  I'm not sure if this will do a lot, since the same error should have came up for any version of PHP 5 since the MySQL libraries haven't been packaged since 5 was released.

My small hope to helping from this point is that when changing the system path to reflect the new installation you didn't replace the old c:\php\phpXXX with c:\php\php524...

Good luck, let me know how it goes.


Andy Stratton, ZCE
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: problem loading mysql dlls
From: Bob Newsome <bobn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, September 18, 2007 7:06 pm
To: php-install@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I am trying to upgrade an Apache 2 PHP installation on XP Home from an
earlier version of PHP 5 to version 5.2.4. The previous version was
working fine. Now I am getting the following message when starting Apache:

[18-Sep-2007 18:11:52] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic
library 'c:\php\php524\ext\php_mysql.dll' - The specified procedure
could not be found.
in Unknown on line 0

phpinfo.php runs fine and returns the following


Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINDOWS
Loaded Configuration File C:\php\php524\php.ini

extension_dir c:\php\php524\ext c:\php\php524\ext

ENVIRONMENT
Path
C:\php\php524\ext;C:\rails-prod-win\ruby\bin;c:\ruby\bin;c:\program
files\imagemagick62;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program
Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;

I looks to me like all of the paths for finding the dlls match. The
php_gd2.dll is uncommented in php.ini, but it does not produce and
error message and gd is enabled in the phpinfo.php output.

I have reloaded the php directory from the zip file, but this does not help.

What should I try next?

Thanks,
Bob Newsome