Can't enable GD

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I've got PHP 4.3.1 running on Win98SE with Apache server 1.3.27. GD should have been installed by default with PHP 4.3, but when I run phpinfo() there is no section on gd. I get error messages when I try to call a gd function - "undefined function".
When I installed PHP, after the installation was finished, I got a message saying that "the software to setup/configure (?) Apache had not yet been written and it would have to be done manually".
So how can I enable GD? Is there a setting in httpd.conf that I have to do? Or something else?

I uncommented

;extension=php_gd.dll
;extension=php_gd2.dll

in php.ini, but that didn't help - just got error messages.

Hawkee

Did you restart Apache after modifying your php.ini?

Fermat

Yep. I shut down apache properly (>apache -k shutdown) then restarted the computer. When I started up apache I got these error messages,

Unable to load dynamic library ./php_gd.dll - one of the library files needed can't be found.

ditto for php_gd2.dll.

Hawkee

Do you have these library files? I'm sorry I can't try this myself right now, but I'm curious why it isn't being loaded by default. Maybe there's something on PHP.net about loading the GD libraries specifically for windows?

Hawkee

Hawkee

I did a little research and came up with this:

http://www.boutell.com/gd/

I believe you need to download the GD dll's from this site, reboot your server and you'll be good to go. Let me know how it goes.

Hawkee

Fermat

Thanks. I've already got php_gd.dll and php_gd2.dll in C:\php\extensions. How do I tell php or apache (or both!) about this directory?

Fermat

GOTTIT!!
In my php.ini file I had the line,

extension_dir=./

I changed this to

extension_dir=c:/php/extensions

and left uncommented the line

extension=php_gd2.dll

Restarted apache and this time when I ran my php file the error message about "undefined function" disappeared. Still a few errors left though, but at least gd is enabled!

Oh yes, I now have a gd section in phpinfo() with "GD support : enabled"

Many thanks.