xdebug installation not working

Question

so I added the following line to php.ini:

zend_extension="Z:\wamp2\bin\php\php5.3.0\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000

xdebug is indeed located in that directory with that filename

I set report_zend_debug = 0

restarted wamp, etc

but xdebug still din't show up in phpinfo....

apache error log displays the following:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'Z:/wamp2/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/php_imagick_ts.dll' - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0
[Mon May 30 19:07:42 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.3.0 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon May 30 19:07:42 2011] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Mon May 30 19:07:42 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4260
Failed loading Z:\wamp2\bin\php\php5.3.0\ext\php_xdebug.dll
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'Z:/wamp2/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/php_imagick_ts.dll' - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0
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<b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'Z:/wamp2/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/php_imagick_ts.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
 in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
[Mon May 30 19:07:43 2011] [notice] Child 4260: Child process is running
[Mon May 30 19:07:43 2011] [notice] Child 4260: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon May 30 19:07:43 2011] [notice] Child 4260: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Mon May 30 19:07:43 2011] [notice] Child 4260: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

PHP is version 5.3.0

got the Xdebug 2.1.1 PHP 5.3 VC9 (32 bit) version

Solution 1

If you are using PHP as an Apache module, you will need to get xdebug TS (Thread Safe). If you are using PHP as a CGI process, you will need to get xdebug (NTS - Not Thread Safe).

You will also need to match the builds:

PHP 5.3 VC6 will require xdebug VC6

PHP 5.3 VC9 will require xdebug VC9

Note that your PHP version 5.3.0 is very old, might have outdated API calls, and is generally unstable / full of bugs. Get the latest version: 5.3.6. Or use a wamp package that comes with a matching xdebug version by default.

Here are the lines in mine that once uncommened will load xdebug:

[XDebug]
zend_extension = "D:\WampDeveloper\Components\Php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "D:/WampDeveloper/Temp/xdebug"
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "D:/WampDeveloper/Temp/xdebug"

Solution 2

I've just found that I have to write a full path to the extension, like

zend_extension = \usr\local\php5\ext\php_xdebug-2.2.0-5.4-vc9.dll

Otherwise I've got an error.

Solution 3

just write the full path in php.ini

zend_extension="C:\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"