PDFLib not recognized by PHP

einhverfr

Hi;

I have tried everything and I cannot get this to work. I am using PHP 4.1.1 and PDFlib 4.0.2. I cannot get any of the PDFlib functions to work (fails on pdf_new() or worse, see below:

Here is what I have tried and the results:

1: I have tried recompiling php with --with-pdflib=no and added extension:libpdf_php.so after copying it into /usr/lib/php4 along with the other .so's. This resulted in the same error.

This apporach used the binary distribution.

2: Tried to copy the support files and run ./buildconf
This resulted in an error:
Unexpected token PHP_CHECK_LIBRARY (pdf,
in line ... of configure
when I tried to configure it. (trying to compile language bindings into PHP).

3: Replaced the original files, tried to compile into PHP (--with-pdf=/usr/src/pkg/pdflib-4.0.2/)
No configuration or compile errors. But it does not work. (undefined function pdf_new.) This was from source.

4: Tried --with-pdf=/usr/local/lib
Same result.

5: Tried --with-pdf=[binary directory]/bind/c
Same result.

I have tried everything, have read the manual sections relating to the PHP extensions, read the PDFlib manual, etc. to no avail. Please help!

einhverfr

OK. I got it to work, sort of, by adding the dl(phplib_php.so), and adding the library to the directory it looked for. However, I cannot get it to load without the dl().

If no one has other ideas, I will add a Platform Abstraction Layer which will, among other things, dynamically load these modules, to minimize porting effort between platforms...

einhverfr

For the record, how I solved the problem:

This problem seems to be caused by incorrect --with-pdflib=/path parameters.

Went to --with-pdflib=/usr/local and this resolved the problem. The argument has to point to the level above the lib directory.

As a side problem, I also got "cannot open ./libs Is a directory" This was also caused by bad parameters. Moral of the story-- double check the configure parameters...