msvcr110.dll is missing from computer error while installing PHP

Question

I am trying to install PHP(5.5). I extracted the zip file in C:\\php folder. And I also set the \'Path\' system variable to C:\\php. But when I open co

Answer 1

I am on a 64 bit system, and I only got this to work after installing both the 32 and 64 bit versions of the redistributable. I did not try the 64 bit version by itself due to the other posters' warnings about using the 32 bit version (and am too lazy to uninstall the 32 bit version now that I have it working), so I don't know if the 32 bit version is needed or not in cases like mine.