Installing GD with PHP

Anon

I would like to use the php function - imagecopyresampled but can't. Presumably as I don't have GD installed.

I can not find simple instructions about how to install GD anywhere. Everyone assumes that if you are asking you are an expert.

Could anybody point me at simple instructions how to install GD on a FreeBSD server that already has php 4.1.2 installed.

I have even reached the stage where I am willing to pay for instructions that I can understand.

Thank you!

Anon

Install GD from the ports collection and then recompile PHP with GD.

I used ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib-dir=/path/to/zlib --with-gd=/usr/local

... but don't trust that it works, I get a fishy error. See the post above yours.

But I do believe that this is how it should be done.

okyejr

while i installed the jpeg and libpng,freetype,gd,php all is ok,but when i compiled the apache,it report the errors:

modules/php4/libphp4.a(gd.o): In function zif_imagecreatefromstring': /home/server/src/php/ext/gd/gd.c:1043: undefined reference togdImageCreateFromJpegCtx'
modules/php4/libphp4.a(gd.o): In function zif_imagecreatefromjpeg': /home/server/src/php/ext/gd/gd.c:1217: undefined reference togdImageCreateFromJpegCtx'
/home/server/src/php/ext/gd/gd.c:1217: undefined reference to gdImageCreateFromJpeg' modules/php4/libphp4.a(gd.o): In functionzif_imagejpeg':
/home/server/src/php/ext/gd/gd.c:1471: undefined reference to gdImageJpegCtx' modules/php4/libphp4.a(gd.o): In function_php_image_convert':
/home/server/src/php/ext/gd/gd.c:3508: undefined reference to gdImageCreateFromJpeg' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [target_static] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory/home/server/src/apache/src'
make[1]: [build-std] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/server/src/apache'
make: [build] Error 2

Anon

You have to give us more than that. What versions of Apache/PHP are you running and what comfigure-string are you using for PHP?

okyejr

thanks for you replay
i use php-php_4.1.2,apache_1.3.24,gd_2.0.1,freetype_2.1.0(compiled fail),jpeg_6b,libpng_1.2.0,T1_1.1.1,xpm-3.4k(compiled fail),zlib_1.1.3!

okyejr

#and my comfigure-string are:
cd php_4.1.2
./configure --prefix=/home/server/php \
--with-apache=/home/server/src/apache \
--with-imap --with-imap-ssl \
--enable-ftp --with-zlib=/usr/local \
--enable-gd-vative-ttf \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--with-tiff-dir=/usr/local \
--with-kerberos=/usr/kerberos
make;make install

#and the apache configure-string
cd apache_1.3.24
./configure --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a \
--enable-module=php4 \
--prefix=/home/server/apache

okyejr

i have successfully to compiled the apache+php+gd(without gif,freetype and xpm support),but when i do a test,it reports:
ImageCreateFromGif: No GIF read support in this PHP build on test.php line 4;
the line 4 is:
$im = ImageCreateFromGIF($srcFile);
why?

Anon

If I remember right, gd 2.x.x has drop the support for GIF due to some licensing legallity associated with the compression scheme used in gifs. The following compile options should allow you to have freetype support as well:

--with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-gd \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-ttf=/usr/lib \
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/include \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include \
--with-tiff-dir=/usr/include

Cheers...

Anon

hi,

indeed GD doesn't support the graphics interexhange format (gif) no longer

okyejr

hi,and how can i compiled the freetype and xpm? thanks!