XAMPP on XP - CLI+PDO+MySQL debugging issues

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Netbeans 6.5.1
Windows XP (sp3)
XAMPP 1.7.0
PHP 5.2.8
MySQL 5.1.30

Issue:

During debugging, exceptions are thrown by php_pdo_mysql.dll


Solution:

In folder ~/xampp/php, copy libmysql_5.0.51a.dll to libmysql.dll. (After making a security copy of course).

Stop the apache and mysql services before doing this, then restart.



Hope this saves someone the day it's taken me to figure this out.