Compiling PHP with Freetype fails

Morrigan

Hello,

I have had a working PHP installation (4.3.1) on Redhat 8.0 with several extensions (including GD) that have been working well. Now I needed to add Freetype, because we'll need to use font manipulations with GD.
So I tried to install Freetype 1.3, but the "make" gave me compilation errors. I then forgot about it and installed Freetype 2, without any problems.
So I reconfigure php, no problems.
My ./configure line is (new options from the last build are in bold):

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/current/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib/ --enable-versioning --enable-track-vars=yes --enable-url-includes --enable-sysvshm=yes --enable-sysvsem=yes --enable-ftp --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-gettext=/usr/local --with-gd --with-imap=/usr/local/imap-2002c1 --with-imap-ssl=/usr/local/openssl --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-ttf

I even get this:

checking for the location of libjpeg... yes
checking for the location of libpng... yes
checking for the location of libXpm... yes
checking for FreeType 1.x support... yes
checking for FreeType 2... yes
checking for T1lib support... yes
checking whether to enable truetype string function in GD... yes

Now it's a bit strange that it says I have Freetype 1.x support 😕 but anyway... PHP just died on me when I tried to compile it: when I run "make" I get compilation errors. I tried changing the freetype-dir path to /usr/local, or /usr/local/include/freetype2, and I still get the same errors. If I don't specify the dir, it also gives me errors (although different ones, weird).

Also, I'd like to point out that it says libjpeg is supported, but functions like imagejpeg or createimagefromjpeg don't work (undefined). It's not a big deal because I'm fine with using png, but that's kind of weird (and yes I did install the jpeg libraries before). I tried running /.configure --with-jpeg-dir=/mydir but it gave me compilation errors, of course.

In any case, I can live w/o the jpeg support but I really need the Freetype stuff. Can anyone help me out please? 🙁

Morrigan

Ok, update: I still didn't get the Freetype to work, but reconfiguring PHP without it, but with the native built-in TTF, sort of worked:
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/current/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib/ --enable-versioning --enable-track-vars=yes --enable-url-includes --enable-sysvshm=yes --enable-sysvsem=yes --enable-ftp --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-gettext=/usr/local --with-gd --with-imap=/usr/local/imap-2002c1 --with-imap-ssl=/usr/local/openssl --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf

And now imagettftext() doesn't give me the "undefined function" error, etc.
But check this out: when I tried to use it, I got this error:

Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: ¸½ÿ¿_l!@ in /home/htdocs/public_html/include/image.class.php on line 35

Oh yeah, the message ¸½ÿ¿_l!@ really helps! :rolleyes: Line 35 is this:

imagettftext($image, $font, 0, $x, $y, $txtcolor, "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirbi.ttf", $label);

The thing is, this folder (TTF) is the only folder on my server where there are actually any .ttf files. 🙁 Is this normal? I'm not sure how you are supposed to actually reference the font file, and/or if I need to install some more... I never even heard of those luxisomething fonts. <scratches head> Where are the Arial, Verdana, etc?

tsinka

Hi,

I read something about a bug in php 4.3.1 reading true type fonts. Try to use php 4.3.2 to solve the problem.

Thomas

Morrigan

Originally posted by tsinka
Hi,

I read something about a bug in php 4.3.1 reading true type fonts. Try to use php 4.3.2 to solve the problem.

Thomas

:o You're right. I checked the bugs database and it was there. Hah! That'll teach me to googling all day trying to find a solution, thinking I was doing something wrong, when it's in fact a bug. -_- Thanks for the tip!
So well, I upgraded to the very latest release, and I didn't get the garbage bogus warning. However, I encountered ANOTHER bug, which is also documented here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22513
And it hasn't been updated since March (minus my own submission earlier), and it's still open. D'oh!! 🙁
It seems that the only way I could get the fonts to work, would be with FreeType 2, but I tried everything to get PHP to compile with it and I always, always get compile errors, no matter what path I include, etc. 🙁

tsinka

What errors do you get if you try to compile it with FreeType 2 ?

Morrigan

I get a lot of errors... Here's an excerpt:

In file included from /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:64:
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:104: parse error before "FT_Library"
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:104: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:106: parse error before "format"
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:106: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:107: parse error before "advance"
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:107: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:109: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:156: parse error before "FT_GlyphRec"
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:156: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:157: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:158: parse error before "top"
/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h:158: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
* snip
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:839: FT_Fixed' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:844:penf' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:845: pen' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:846:bbox' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:848: use_kerning' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:849:previous' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:851: FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:912: invalid type argument of->'
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:983: glyph_index' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:987:ft_kerning_default' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:987: delta' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1004:glyph_bbox' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1035: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1035: ft_glyph_format_bitmap' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1035:ft_render_mode_normal' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1045: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1045: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1045: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1052: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/local/src/php-4.3.2/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1053: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make: ** [ext/gd/libgd/gdft.lo] Error 1

Note that I get the same errors regardless of the freetype path specified in the ./configure... I tried /usr/local, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype, etc. I even tried w/o a path, but I got errors too.

tsinka

Hi,

here is a post of another user who had exat the same problem:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/php-install/2003021/0098.php

He had to download the latest version of all dependend libraries like jpeg ...

But I doubt that you really need to recompile MySQL ...

Morrigan

Well, I had actually initially compiled every library manually. They are all the latest version too... Like you said, I doubt I'd have to recompile MySQL, it just doesn't make any sense. 🙁

Oh well, thanks for your help.

Morrigan

Funny thing... I tried to compile PHP with Freetype AND without gd, and it didn't give me any errors. Of course, it doesn't help because one needs gd to make use of Freetype in the first place, but I thought that strange. Some incompatibility/conflict issues perhaps?