Compiling PHP against GD

Ramsey_Nasser

I want to use the GD image library on my webpage to generate graphs dynamically, but I am having a very hard time installing the library. Every where I have read, i was told to use

./configure --with-gd=etc etc

but where exactly do you type this command? My specs are:

Wndows XP
PHP 4.2.1
Apache 1.3.26

As you can see, I am not running a Unix-based OS, and dont have a command line (I assumed that maybe thats where you would type ./configure). Also, I dont have a C compiler if any compiling is needed. I downloaded the GD source code from their website, but I'm stuck as to what to do next! Any help would be greatly apprechiated. Thank you in advance.

jonsof

I think you have to check your php.ini in order to fix it, but in my machine the GD functions don't work 🙁🙁
How can i fix that?

hi-liter

I am running XP pro, Apache 2 and PHP 4.2.4

I copied the "extensions" folder from php-4.2.3-Win32 (I had the older version already) into C:\PHP (where I installed PHP). Then edited the php.ini by uncommenting the following line:

extension=php_gd.dll

also in php.ini I changed the extension_dir to:
extension_dir = "C:\PHP\extensions"

where I had put the extensions...

GD then worked for me. Doesn't seem to handle gif images, but png and jpeg work fine.

hth.

Ramsey_Nasser

hi-liter, that did it! ive seen that line b4, but i never knew PHP came with the GD library. it dosent do gifs beacause the LWZ alogrithm to compress gifs is patented or somthing. thx alot for the help.