Description:
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php.exe for windows, php-5.5.11-Win32-VC11-x86.zip is actually fails with a 64-bit redst only. I had to learn with VC++ that the compiler targets  ar eunder different dirs. i will give you a clue that arm is not a platform for for compilers.
see http://jesusnjim.com/programming/compilers/ms-vs.html#which-cl

Test script:
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I extracted php-5.5.11-Win32-VC11-x86.zip
I think I had maybe both redists installed and everything was working fine. I must have, because this was working before. I uninstalled them both and reinstalled the redist for VS2012u4x64 ONLY.
ran php


Expected result:
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64-bit exe that's actually 64-bit.

the different dirs under the VC bin directory are the different target compilers. the left side of _ is the host, the right side is the target.
like x86_amd64 is an x86 hosted compiler (compiler made for x86) but generates code for amd64. and /Qpar /volatile:ms parallelizes your loops where possible (makes them run 4-8x faster).

Actual result:
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I got an 'msvcr110.dll is missing' error.
i installed the x86 redist.
then php would run.
this tells me you used the 32-bit-target compiler when you wanted to target amd64. OR, the redists got swapped at microsoft (it's possible, an msdn guy has the same problem)