PDF installation woes

[Anon]

I have attempted to compile PDF support into PHP, yet when I use the script to build a PDF
document with the face of a clock and the current time it fails immediately with the error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pdf_new() in /var/www/html/php/pdf-test.php on
line 6

       The script I am using is from Example 2 on the page:
       http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

       I am using:
         Apache 1.3.20
         PDFLIB 4.0.1  (installed in /usr/local/lib)
         PHP 4.0.6

       The configure script I have used for PHP is:
       ./configure \
         --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
         --disable-pear \
         --enable-libgcc \
         --enable-ftp \
         --with-yaz \
         --with-pdflib=shared \
         --with-tiff-dir=shared \
         --with-jpeg-dir=shared \
         --with-png-dir=shared \
         --with-zlib=shared \
         --with-gd=shared \
         --with-regex=system \
         --enable-yp \
         --enable-bcmath \
         --enable-c9x-inline \
         --enable-calendar \
         --enable-inline-optimization \
         --enable-trans-sid \
         --with-dom=shared \
         --with-mhash=shared \
         --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/conf

       Configure does not complain about missing any PDF support files.

       The config.log file had the following lines regarding PDFlib support:configure:39416:
       checking whether to include PDFlib support
       configure:39602: checking for PDF_show_boxed in -lpdf
       configure:39623: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -DLINUX=22 -DUSE_HSREGEX -DUSE_EXPAT
       -DSUPPORT_UTF8  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96
       -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 conftest.c -lpdf 
               -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng -lz
              -lgd -lcrypt -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl  -lresolv -lgcc 1>&5

       After this scipt failed with the PHP 4.0.6 source, I followed the directions in the PDFLIB
       source which suggests to copy their copy of ext/pdf into the PHP source tree and recompile
       PHP. This made no difference.

       Any suggestions?

[Anon]

Hi,

Having exactly the same trouble....someone must have got this working!!!

help??

ben

[Anon]

Even i had the same problem . Is this function a part of pdf lib or ? could anyone explaing ?

[Anon]

This took me ages to get working and after trawling about various news groups I still found no real clue as to why this wouldn't work.

Here's the scribbles I wrote down during the installation....they made more sense at the time:

1. make and install pdflib.xxx
2. configure and make php with --with-pdflib=shared,/usr/local (or appropriate path)
3. DO NOT INSTALL php. I already have a working version of php with flags as listed at the bottom of this post.
4. copy newly created libpdf_php.so (<PHP_SOURCE_DIR>/modules/) to existing php extensions dir eg. /usr/local/php/extensions/
5. Call module dynamically in script using dl(libpdf_php.so) or include in php.ini file (extension=libpdf_php.so)

Really hope this helps!!!

Compiled on Solaris 7
Apache 1.3.19
Php 4.0.6 with:
'--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-gd' '--with-png-dir' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-zlib-dir' '--with-zlib' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-ttf' '--enable-calendar' '--without-pear'

[Anon]

I'm going nuts with this one. I'm trying to compile the pdflib 4.0.2 with php 4.1.2.

I can get it to create libpdf_php.a, but never finish the shared object, libpdf_php.so

What am I missing? I'm using RedHat 7.2.

Russ