Compiling PHP from source using Microsoft Visual c++ 2008 error

First off i want to thank everyone who has contributed towards making this website the great resource that it is today. OK, Here is my problem. I am trying to work with id3 tags in php and im using wamp server 2.0i on my vista 32bit ultimate. I followed the steps at php's wiki page on compiling extension for windows machines.(cant post the link).everything goes nice and smooth up until towards the end where i get an error saying fatal error c1083. could not open header zlib.h. I am running the shell as the administrator and not really sure what else there is i can do. But im really going crazy over this. I have followed instructions step by step but some how i am still getting stuck. Here is the link to the text file containing the compiling process. https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Byjn3U-sXJBHNjA3ZTI1NTktYzlmZS00N开发者_StackOverflow社区jAxLTgyNzYtYTM3ZTRhYmY2NzE2&hl=en&authkey=CL6j7e4D

Thanks in advance, I'm just gonna bang my head against the wall for little bit more and then either get unconscious or sleepy! LOL

Wooohoooo, Ok all I had to do was configure --disable-zlib and then nmake. But now one more thing. I am using wamp server and i tried just copy and pasting the produced folder but wamp does not like it and just crashes. Oops. good thing i kept the old copy of the php folder as a back up (unlike what i usually do). So i guess my question is: how do i use this compiled php with my id3 module? sorry about the dumm question.

The PECL id3 module is listed in alpha and hasn't been modified since 2004, so it is very unlikely that you'll be able to use it in any stable method against PHP 5.3.

Have you considered using the GPL-based getID3 class ( http://getid3.sourceforge.net/ ) which, despite its name, is capable of reading and writing id3 from a wide variety of files and has comparable functions to everything the id3 module ( http://us2.php.net/id3 ).