GD Install Problems

[jasonmartin]

I have tried every version of GD from 1.6 to 1.8.4 & I can't get past the make part of the installation for PHP. I can get the 1.3 version of GD to compile & install properly, but I need PNG support.

Anyway... Here are my specs:

RedHat 2.4.7-10
PHP 4.2.2
Apache 1.3.26

Here is the error messages I receive while trying to make PHP:

gd.c:92: conflicting types for gdIOCtx'
/usr/local/gd-1.8.4/gd_io.h:18: previous declaration ofgdIOCtx'
gd.c: In function zif_imagecreatefromgif':
gd.c:1235:gdImageCreateFromGif' undeclared (first use in this function)
gd.c:1235: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
gd.c:1235: for each function it appears in.)
gd.c: In function zif_imagegif':
gd.c:1464:gdImageGif' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: [gd.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory /usr/local/php-4.2.2/ext/gd'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory/usr/local/php-4.2.2/ext/gd'
make[1]: [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/php-4.2.2/ext'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Here is the configure command I use:

./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/src/bin/apxs --with-gd=/usr/local/gd-1.8.4 --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib

I've left the GD makefile alone as well as modified the CFLAGS & LIBS settings in the makefile to reflect what I have on my system. GD always compiles/makes fine in either scenario & I can run the gddemo program after compiling & it generates a sample .png file.

I get this same group of errors whenever I use GD version 1.6 - 1.8.4. I even tried the beta 2.0.1 - same problem. The weird part is that PHP compiles fine with version 1.3.

I've searched everywhere on the Internet, but no help was found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jason Martin

[jasonmartin]

Can anybody offer any help concerning my original post?

If not, would the developers of PHP or the GD library be able to help?

Thanks,

Jason Martin

[jasonmartin]

Does anybody have any idea on this one (Please refer to my original post)? Who can I turn to with the issue? Could it possibly be a bug with PHP or GD?

Thanks,

Jason Martin

[David_Steckbeck]

I was having the same problem for the past couple of days and I figured out how to make it work on my system. I believe this will fix your problem as well.

I've read previous posts regarding 'locate gd.h' and removing any other instances of the file but PHP is only going to look for it if you don't specify a path, so that didn't seem like the right answer.

Apparently there is something related to the gd portion of the installer left behind after compiling it - don't ask me what, but when I did a 'make clean' (which I always do), then did a 'make distclean' all of a sudden gd would compile for me.

If anything, you could always blow away the php source directory and extract it from the tar file again. That should do it also...

David