title: Difficulties installing php enchant on Windows
body: <p>Okay, I've read the php.net docs, I've browsed numerous sites including stackoverflow for solutions and nothing has helped. So I'm asking, is there anyone who can post a definitive guide for getting enchant to work on Windows? </p>
  
  <p>My set up is:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Windows 7</li>
  <li>WAMP Server 2.0</li>
  <li>PHP 5.3.0</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>PHP is located in </p>
  
  <pre><code>C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I downloaded the php_enchant.dll from <a href="http://downloads.php.net/pierre/php_enchant-1.1.0-5.3-vc9-x86.zip" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://downloads.php.net/pierre/php_enchant-1.1.0-5.3-vc9-x86.zip</a> and unzipped its contents. I did as the readme stated and</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>moved php_enchant.dll into C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext (my
  extensions path) </li>
  <li>moved all other dll files into C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0</li>
  <li>added extension=php_enchant.dll to my php.ini</li>
  <li>restarted httpd</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>For dictionaries, I followed the first answer here <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16728842/php-enchant-spell-checking-not-working-configuration-in-windows">PHP: Enchant Spell Checking not working. Configuration in Windows?</a></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I downloaded the correct dictionary zips from Mozilla</li>
  <li>I placed them inside of C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/share/myspell/dicts</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>After all of this trying to run 
      enchant_broker_init(); 
  gives a fatal error. I really don't know what else to do. If anyone can give me some advice I'd really appreciate it. </p>
  
  <p>Edit: Okay so my apache error log gives the following error</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/php_enchant.dll' - The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.\r\n in Unknown on line 0 &lt;b&gt;Warning&lt;/b&gt;:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/php_enchant.dll' - The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.in &lt;b&gt;Unknown&lt;/b&gt; on line &lt;b&gt;0&lt;/b&gt;[Wed Mar 05 15:28:02 2014] [notice] Child 6128: Child process is running
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Pulling out my hair now.</p>