Issue with VC17 not compatible

[alirxamughal]

I am using xampp with PHP Version 7.4.14. This php version using

Compiler	Visual C++ 2017
Architecture	x64

but i didn't find any compatible version of this.
Also PHP throws error of unable to load dynamic extension.

[zlodes]

@alirxamughal Using XAMPP in 2021 it's a quite big problem.
For local development you may use Vagrant or Docker.

[cmb69]

There are pre-built Windows packages of decimal 1.4.0 available. Make sure you download 7.4 Thread Safe (TS) x64. Then you need to put php_decimal.dll in your extension_dir and libmpdec.dll somewhere in your PATH. I assume you're missing the latter.