Using Boutell's gd

[sirugo]

Hello!<br><br>I'm a newbie running 3.3, trying to install Boutell's gd application to generate jpegs and pngs on the fly.<br>It requires the jpeg-6b, zlib and the pnglib.<br>I've got them all installed.<br>I also installed gd successfully. The gddemo runs great and produces a png on the fly.<br>BUT!<br><br>Now I want to add the feature in one of my own apps. So I take Boutell's example, copy it into an empty file and try to compile it:<br>gcc -I. gdso-ch.c -o gdso -L. -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -lm -lgd -lpng -lz<br><br>but it generates the following error msg:<br>/var/tmp/ccp385941.o(.text+0x3d6b): undefined reference to `gdImageJpeg'<br><br>What am I doing wrong and do I really need all that above to compile it? Boutell's webpage tells me exactly the following:<br>&quot;gd lets you create PNG or JPEG images on the fly. To use gd in your program, include the file gd.h, and link with the libgd.a library produced by &quot;make libgd.a&quot;, under<br>Unix. Under other operating systems you will add gd.c to your own project.&quot;<br>(see <A HREF="

http://www.boutell.com/gd/"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.boutell.com/gd/</A>)<br><br>Thanks

in advance<br>I

 

[rycamor]

Add -ljpeg to your libs.<br><br>If you look in the Makefile, you will see that the line<br><br>LIBS=-lm -lgd -lpng -lz<br><br>is the default, which doesn't include jpeg support; to enable more options, the commented line<br><br>#LIBS=-lm -lgd -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lttf -lXpm<br><br>contains all the options, including -ljpeg, which is for jpeg support.

 

[sirugo]

Thanks!<br><br>That's what I was thinking about to try next.<br>Thanks for confirming my thoughts!<br><br>I'll be back if it won't work.<br><br>I

 

[sirugo]

Sorry to say that it did not work!<br><br>I installed jpeg-6b (which was required) to /usr/local/lib and added -ljpeg to the commandline:<br><br>gcc -I. gdso-ch.c -o gdso -L. -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -lm -lgd -lpng -lz -ljpeg<br><br>Got the very same message.<br>To me it seems that the gd-library is not OK.<br>

 

[rycamor]

I am not a C or C++ developer. I was able to install gd-1.8.3 on my system, and compile it with PHP, but it took a lot of futzing around. I know you have different needs, but for what it's worth, here is what I did; maybe something in here will help you:<br><br>My platform was FreeBSD3.4, and later 4.0<br><br>1. Assume X-windows, libpng, mysql, gmake and automake are already installed.<br><br>2. Install libjpeg (from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz" TARGET="_new">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz</A> )<br>a) ./configure --enable-shared<br>b) gmake, gmake install<br><br><br>3. Install Freetype 1.3.1 (from <A HREF="

http://www.freetype.org"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.freetype.org</A>)<br>a)

./configure --enable-shared --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib<br>b) gmake, gmake install<br>c) if freetype creates a freetype/ directory inside /usr/local/lib, copy all contents into /usr/local/lib<br><br><br>4. Install zlib 1.1.3 (from <A HREF="

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/</A>)

(as I understand, gd requires zlib, and PHP4 will only work with zlib version &gt;= 1.0.9)<br>a) ./configure --shared<br>b) gmake, gmake install<br><br><br>5. Install gd-1.8.3 (from <A HREF="

http://www.boutell.com/gd"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.boutell.com/gd</A>)<br>a)

edit Makefile for correct include and lib dirs, and uncomment the lines that<br>enable all options, while commenting out the default lines<br>b) edit gd.c; remove 1st three lines (if - endif for malloc.h)<br>c) edit gdcache.h and ...php-src/ext/gd/gdcache.h (if exists) and replace<br>&lt;malloc.h&gt; with &lt;stdlib.h&gt;<br>d) copy /usr/X11R6/include/X11 to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X11 (gd looks<br>recursively inside X11 to X11/*)<br>e) gmake, gmake install<br><br><br>6. Install apache-1.3.12<br>a) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=all<br>--enable-shared=max<br>b) gmake, gmake install<br><br><br>7. Install PHP 4.0.1pl2<br>a) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php4 --with-mysql<br>--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --enable-track-vars --with-gd=/usr/local/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-zlib-dir=shared<br>b) gmake, gmake install<br>c) sometimes I have found you need to reboot the system completely instead of just restart httpd<br><br><br><br>

 

[sirugo]

Thanks for the energy you put into that reply, rycamor<br><br>OK, right now I'm trying to follow your steps exactly. It works fine although

 

[rycamor]

Well... it wasn't a lot of energy. When I *finally* managed to get it right, I documented all my steps. (never want to have to think that one through again ;-)

 

[sirugo]

Ooops. The last important part of my message got lost!<br><br>...although make install doesn't work!<br>It gives me:<br>make: don't know how to make install. Stop<br><br>As far as I know it worked some days ago. Not sure, though.<br>Why?

 

[sirugo]

What more:<br><br>I managed to gmake install the truetype-lib and the<br>Now I suddenly get the following message when I start emacs:<br><br>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.6 not found<br><br>Ummm...what has happened now?

 

[rycamor]

It should be at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6<br><br>Try entering 'locate libXaw'<br><br>and see what comes up.<br><br>I think libXaw refers to a graphics card library in X-windows. I really don's see how FreeType could have affected it, but...<br><br>If it's not there, I would say reinstall X-windows. Don't really know what else to say.<br><br>Anyone else know more about this than me?<br><br>(Remember, my platform was 3.4, and using 'gmake'. I haven't tried it on 3.3 with 'make')

 

[sirugo]

OK. I didn't do anything.<br>When I got back to the server a few hours later emacs worked fine. I'm the only one who does things there so it probably solved its own problem.<br>Now I can continue follow your instructions.

 

[sirugo]

After some back and forthing between makefiles and directories I finally made it!<br><br>The fatal mistake I made was to forget uncommenting the line that said that the jpeg stuff was already installed.<br>And a few other tiny stupid things.<br><br>Thanks, rycamor! Your documentation helped a lot!<br>I can sleep well now, if there's any time for it now that I can play with gd for a while...<br><br>I