Windows PHP 8.4.3 Extension Loading Problems

[tomshaw]

Description

Having problems loading extensions on Windows. Below are my Apache logs:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'curl' (tried: C:\Php\php-8.4.3\ext\curl (The specified module could not be found), C:\Php\php-8.4.3\ext\php_curl.dll (The specified procedure could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'intl' (tried: C:\Php\php-8.4.3\ext\intl (The specified module could not be found), C:\Php\php-8.4.3\ext\php_intl.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pgsql' (tried: C:\Php\php-8.4.3\ext\pgsql (The specified module could not be found), C:\Php\php-8.4.3\ext\php_pgsql.dll (The operating system cannot run %1)) in Unknown on line 0

PHP Version

PHP 8.4.3

Operating System

Windows 10

[damianwadley]

All of those extensions have dependencies on other DLLs. Did you make sure those dependencies are available for Apache to load? And no, simply having them in the PHP directory isn't enough because the running application is Apache - not php.exe.

[tomshaw]

Apache is definitely setup correctly. Below is how I switch between Apache versions in my httpd.conf.

PHP-5/7/8

# LoadModule php5_module "C:/Php/php-5.6.40/php5apache2_4.dll"
# LoadModule php7_module "C:/Php/php-7.0.33/php7apache2_4.dll"
# LoadModule php7_module "C:/Php/php-7.2.34/php7apache2_4.dll"
# LoadModule php7_module "C:/Php/php-7.4.27/php7apache2_4.dll"
# LoadModule php_module "C:/Php/php-8.1.25/php8apache2_4.dll"
# LoadModule php_module "C:/Php/php-8.2.15/php8apache2_4.dll"
LoadModule php_module "C:/Php/php-8.4.3/php8apache2_4.dll"

# PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-5.6.40
# PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-7.0.33
# PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-7.2.34
# PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-7.4.27
# PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-8.1.25
# PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-8.2.15
PHPIniDir C:/Php/php-8.4.3

[damianwadley]

That's nice, but I asked if you had the dependencies of those extensions' DLLs accessible to Apache. So I'm going to assume the answer is "no".

There are better solutions, but the simplest one is to add PHP to the PATH.

[tomshaw]

Nailed it. The solution was to update the system path. Obviously a long day for me.

Thank you.

[cmb69]

And no, simply having them in the PHP directory isn't enough because the running application is Apache

But see #16958.