[xdebug-general] Re: xdebug for PHP 5.3.x VC6 and x64?

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, FabriA wrote:

> I'm running XAMPP 1.7.3 (PHP 5.3.1, VC6, thread safe) on my Windows 7 Home
> Premium x64 box and having a hard time finding the correct xdebug DLL to run
> with it. The provided binaries (2.0.6-dev) do work sometimes, but provide no
> runtime variable output and crash often when a variable is put on watch list.
> All other DLLs downloaded from xdebug.org do not work: they either crash on
> debugging or crash Apache on startup ( php_xdebug-2.1.0beta2-5.3-vc6.dll --->
> error 0xc0000005), so I guess it's because of the x64 bit requirement
> (although phpinfo() tells me PHP was compiled for x86 and there is no x64-only
> XAMPP release available).

VC6 does not support x64.

> I reckon the php_xdebug-2.1.0beta2-5.3-vc6.dll should work with XAMPP 1.7.3
> out of the box, but doesn't. Has anyone an idea why? If the problem is with 64
> bit environment, where is it possible to download x64 binaries? Are they
> available somewhere for VC6-TS-x64?

No, you need the VC6-x86 binaries here. At least, let's hope they have
PHP and apache compiled against VC6 then as you can *not* mix them.

> Any help appreciated - I'd hate to go back to an earlier version of either PHP
> or XAMPP.

Try the correct binary from here—they have a few nasty crash bugs fixed:
http://xdebug.org/files/xdebug-latest.tgz

regards,
Derick

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