I am trying to use imagettftext() from some of the example code on this site. I know you have to compile and install freetype.dll or ttflib seperate from PHP. BUT this is giving me a major headache, all the compiles are failing and the GNUmake compiler from www.freetype.org also requires compiling before it can be used.
Why isn't the true type fonts library included with PHP and why is only the source code available. Is it available precompiled anywhere, at least for the major platforms. I think that the number of problems that people are experiencing with this warrants an article on how to setup the library.
I am using PHP4 installed as ISAPI on Windows 2000 with IIS 5.0 and I am lucky enough to have Visual Studio 6.
