gd library and imagecreate

monger

When I recently went through a system upgrade to Fedora Core 3, I had to upgrade php. Then, run down the required libraries. All was installed and php 'knows' about everything it should. Including gd. But, when I execute a script off the command line, I get

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function:  imagecreate() in 
/home/user1/bin/tinyplot.php on line 45

What's bugging me about this is a phpinfo reveals this:
configured with --with-gd=shared, --enable-gd-native-ttf.

I've read about the extension tag in the php.ini, but nothing much about it in *nix, mostly Win32. When I tried to add the extension tag in the php.ini, I barked that it wasn't a valid php extension. When I do a 'locate libgd', I get the following return:

/usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgd.so.2
/usr/lib/php4/libgd.so
/usr/local/lib/libgd.a
/usr/local/lib/libgd.so.2
/usr/local/lib/libgd.so

So, the one in /usr/lib/php4/ should be the appropriate one for php, so waht gives? Suggestions on how to get this rectified?

Thanks,
monger

AstroTeg

You might want to read all the comments found here: [man]imagecreate[/man] There's several of them that talk about having problems running the function. There's even one there which mentions the same problem as you, although they have a slightly different OS.

monger

Originally posted by AstroTeg
You might want to read all the comments found here: [man]imagecreate[/man] There's several of them that talk about having problems running the function. There's even one there which mentions the same problem as you, although they have a slightly different OS.

I'd seen that before, but for the sake of completeness, I tried it again. I've rebuild gd, httpd, and php from source, but still have the same issue.

Any other ideas?

monger

easypeasy

I would love an answer to this too. I seem to have exactly the same problem having rented a dedicated server from fasthosts.co.uk using Fedora 3 build.

Php (4.3.10) reports as being built with --with-gd=shared but the GD extension does not load or work, even after I have made suitable config changes to php.ini ("extension") and created a gd.ini and copied gd.so.2.0.0.0 to the same directory as mysql.so and ldap.so

All web references seem to say that php >4.3 has "gd bundled" but it is not clear whether this means it is compiled into php, or whether it just means the library is bundled on the server somewhere. Either way it leaves me baffled as the GD library is not present in the php4 directory along with mysql.so etc. There are some gd.so.2.x.x.x.x libraries in /usr/lib/ but when I force php to load one of these using the DL command, it refuses and says that "it may not be a php library"...

I have spent so many evenings trying to figure this out.. It's a brand new clean install of fedora 3 (by my hosting company) and everywhere says that "gd is bundled". And the compile flags suggest that - yet it doesn't work, and I'm tearing my hair out! :bemused:

What is the signifiance of "=shared" in the configuration parameter? does this indicate the directory that the library should be in? where would this be on the filesystem, given there is no / prefixing it...?

If anyone can shed a hint of light on this I would be so grateful. I truly want to avoid downloading lots of stuff and re-compiling etc. as then I will have a non-standard server and it will be harder to get support from fasthosts. (Plus I am a novice, so if I mess it up my sites might be off air and who knows if I could fix it..)

cheers
nik