gd-2.0.1 does not compile libgd.a?

[saloon12yrd]

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to get gd-2.0.1 to work with a new instance of apache and php4.0.6 and I got two errors:

Although GD seems to install just fine (with jpeg, png and zlib support) it does not create a libgd.a file. I'm unable to find any hints, be it in this forum, others or the manual.

The second thing is, I configure PHP with --enable-gd-native-ttf but when running it says
"checking whether to enable truetype string function in gd... no"

A few lines later configure stops with
"error: Unable to find libgd.(a|so) anywhere under /usr/local/include/freetype2"

Any hints on how to get a libgd.a and how to enable ttf for gd? Is the second thing even needed for using freetype fonts with gd (it seems so but...) 😉

My PHP config script reads as follows:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php/lib/php.ini \
--enable-trans-sid \
--enable-track-vars \
--with-apache=/usr/local/src/apache_1.3.22 \
--with-oci8=/usr/local/oracle \
--with-mysql=/home/mysql \
--with-jpeg-dir=../jpeg-6b \
--with-png-dir=../libpng-1.0.8 \
--with-zlib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl \
--with-curl=/usr/local/curl \
--with-gd=/usr/local/src/gd-2.0.1 \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/include/freetype2 \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \

cfg.stdout 2>cfg.stderr

Thanks in advance,

Dominique

[saloon12yrd]

Got the solution from
http://www.php.net/~rasmus/gd.html

[Anon]

for some reason you need to set
--with-gd=...
to one directory lower than where libgd.a is actually stored.

in my case gd was installed like this:

/usr/lib/libgd.a

so i set up config like this:

(to avoid confusion, this is the one which worked)
--with-gd=/usr/

instead of this which i had before

--with-gd/usr/lib/

and it worked!

hope this works for everyone else