Databse connection

Dear sirs, I’m setting up a new development machine for a sligthly olderer WP product.

Environment:
Windows 7
MySQL 5.6.20 community edition
Apache 2.2
php 5.4.33

when running php to list modules both
mysql, and
mysqli
are enabled, so it seams my php.ini looks rigth.

I am capable of doing mysqli connect and query cals from apache php script, but when trying to install worpress I’m receiving:
‘Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.’

looking at the check in load.php makes me believe there is an issue eigther with the extension discovery or the lack of a db.php.

Any Suggestions?

Duncan