Installing PHP APC on Windows/Apache

Question

i need help installing and configuring PHP APC i have downloaded from http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ in my PHP info, i see

Compiler       MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008) 
Architecture   x86

so i downloaded php_apc-5.3-nts-svn20100226-vc9-x86.zip. then to install, i tried adding

[PHP_APC]
extension=php_apc.dll

to php.ini. restarting Apache fails. trying to execute php in cmd results in an error saying php5.dll is missing. but i doubt so. removing the 2 lines from php.ini fixes the error. how can i install apc then?

Answer 1

On Windows, seems php5.3 cannot work with APC. I simply use php5.2.5 instead as it's not a production machine anyway.