How do you get the gd to work on window?

Anon

I have been dowloading the php_gd.dll extension, copy it to extension dir (my extension dir is 'c:\windows\system').
and un-commented the ";" in front of extension=php_gd.dll at the php.ini file, but still can't make it working.

it have error that
gd.dll unable to initialize module
Module compiled with debug=0, thread-safety=1 module API=20001214
PHP compiled with debug=0, thread-safety=1 module API=20000809
These options need to match.

And I am using PHP vesion 4.02 on Window98 + PWS + MySQL
Any help provided will be great......

thanks
Sulawan

igebert

You can't just take any PHP-GD binary to plug into your PHP. The GD library is compiled for each PHP version specificly as the API changes with never versions. That means that the binaries can't be used with other versions than the source code it was compiled with. You have to stick with the version that comes with your PHP package(the .zip file of PHP is necessary).

As it might be difficult getting this rather outdated version I'd recommend upgrading to PHP 4.1.1 which includes both GD1.8 and GD2.

-ingmar

Anon

Don't forget it.

You want to use GD Lib. on Windows.

You need to install PHP as a module not a CGI install...(.*exe).

Please read links to PHP manual...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php#install.windows.manual