No socket support in embedded server

I need to connect to an ancillary server on our machine by creating a new socket, and it works in Apache PHP with the sockets extension installed,

but when I run the progam in the embedded server of PHP Runner, I get the error :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function socket_create() in C:\Users\gpclarke\Documents\PHPRunnerProjects\FM_IOL_0111b\output\include\Connection.php on line 122



How can I enable the sockets extension in the embedded server?

thanks

gp clarke