Hi,

I would very much like some help with compiling PHP 5 on my machine. It's all gone well so far, with one small problem.

I am running Mac OS X 10.3.4. I downloaded the first true release of PHP 5. Then I investigated the various libraries I need to include in the compilation. I found that I could get them from Fink, so I installed gd, freetype2, libxml2, libjpeg, libpng3 and pdflib. I also installed Apache 2, which is working nicely.

My configure line is currently as follows:

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/lib/php5  --with-zlib  --with-iconv=/sw/  

--without-bundle-libxml  --with-dom=/sw/  --with-libxml-dir=/sw/  --with-xsl=/sw/  

--with-gd  --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6/  --with-jpeg-dir=/sw/  --with-png-dir=/sw/  

--enable-sockets  --enable-pcntl  --enable-shmop  --enable-sysvshm  --enable-sysvsem  

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/  --enable-debug  --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs 
--with-pdflib=/sw/

The problem is that whatever I seem to do, pdflib support is NOT compiled into php. I have to admit I have no idea what's going on really, but I've read lots on various websites about it.

The resulting installation of PHP 5 works very well - the gd and xml functions are fine. But I find no mention of PDF functionality in phpinfo(). When I look at the verbose output from the configure command, the only mention of PDF is in this line:

checking for cpdflib support... no

At no point does it seem to check for pdflib support. What have I done wrong?

I have tried changing the path for pdflib to /usr/local/, in an attempt to use the libraries from my PHP 4 installation. Same problem.

Please, please, please can someone help?!!!

    I noticed something along these lines as well...

    I was doing housecleaning on my configure script, so I compared all of my PHP4 options to the new stuff as described by PHP5s /configure --help. Normal PDFLib is NOT listed for some reason. I wonder if it's not yet supported by PHP5 for some weird reason.

    P.S. if any windows PHP5 user is reading this, please chime in on whether the windows distribution comes with the pdflib dll, and if it works.

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