difficulty installing PECL id3 package

[madspoihur]

I am having some difficulty installing the PECL id3 package. I am trying to install with pear install. 5 example files appear in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\docs\id3\examples and 4 files appear in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\data\id3. So it looks like something has been installed, though even after restarting apache and my computer, a simple example file returns an error indicating that it cant find the id3 function.

Here is my cmd prompt:

C:\xampp\php>pear install id3-0.2
No releases available for package "pear.php.net/id3" - package pecl/id3 can be installed with "pecl install id3"
install failed

C:\xampp\php>pecl install id3-0.2
downloading id3-0.2.tgz ...
Starting to download id3-0.2.tgz <20,693 bytes>
........done: 20, 693 bytes
$ source files, building
WARNING: php_bin \xampp\php\php.exe appears to have a suffix \php.exe, but config variable php_suffix does not match
running: msdev id3.dsp \MAKE "id3 - Release"
ERROR: Did not understand the completion status returned from msdev.exe.

Here is the file and the error message:

<?php
$longName = id3_get_frame_long_name("TOLY");
echo $longName;
?>

Fatal error: Call to undefined function id3_get_frame_long_name() in C:\xampp\htdocs\id3trial.php on line 2

Id be thankful for any advice

Thanks,

Mads

[sneakyimp]

I'm not sure, but I believe that when you install an extension to PHP, there needs to be a reference to the newly installed extension in PHP.ini. You might want to edit your PHP.ini to see if there is a new reference to the ID3 extension. I think these files typically end in .so.

Hope that helps.

[sneakyimp]

Actually, I might have been wrong. Having read the docs on ID3 install, I see this:

id3 is part of PECL and can be installed using the PEAR installer. To compile PHP with id3 support, download the sourcecode, put it in php-src/ext/id3 and compile PHP using --enable-id3. 

That sounds a bit tricky to me. You might have to search for help on compiling PHP.