title: Compiling a php extension into a dll
body: <p>I've been attempting for a last few days to make use of the operator overloading extension (pecl.php.net/package/operator), which has apparently been updated recently to be compatible with 5.3 and 5.4.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried compiling it in windows (64-bit Windows 7) using <a href="https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild" rel="nofollow">this guide</a>, with PHP 5.4 and Windows SDK 7.1 without luck. So I tried doing it with PHP 5.3 and Windows SDK 6.1 and I can get it to successfully compile with the config "configure --disable-all --enable-cli --enable-operator" and then "nmake". The problem is that it doesn't produce a dll file for the operator extension, instead what I get <a href="http://i.imgur.com/2fYcVae.png" rel="nofollow">is this</a>, which is apparently useless for me. What I want is a dll I can use for my local WampServer setup.</p>
  
  <p>I had had fatal errors when trying to use operator-0.4.1 from the pecl.php.net site, so instead I downloaded and compiled from the git repository (github.com/php/pecl-php-operator), which is what produced the .obj, .idb and .sbr files.</p>