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php5: Installing GD module

Asked by: Discofish

I would like to install the GD module php module without having to reinstall PHP. Does anyone know where the source can be found?  I am running Red Hat 9.

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2005-05-26 at 09:21:08ID21437915
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Answers

 

by: idmiskPosted on 2005-05-26 at 16:11:40ID: 14090850

are you sure that it is not compiled into PHP?
create a info.php with content
<? phpinfo(); ?>
access it and search for GD. as i know redhat compiles it into php

 

by: BenMorelPosted on 2005-05-29 at 05:58:37ID: 14104379

Not sure it will work, but you can give it a try :
- Download the gd tarball : wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
- Extract it : tar zxvf gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
- Change dir : cd gd-2.0.33
- Run the configure script : ./configure
- Compile the sources : make
- [Note: don't run make install here]
- Go to .libs dir : cd .libs
- Copy the libgd.so library to your php extensions dir, say /usr/lib/php4 : cp libgd.so /usr/lib/php4/
- Add this line to your php.ini : extension=libgd.so
- [Note: you can also create a file with this single line in your /etc/php.d dir, if exists.]
- Restart apache, if you're using php as a module.

- And let me know if it worked ;)

Ben

 

by: hujiPosted on 2005-06-03 at 03:21:00ID: 14138130

Well, I didn't do any of the above my self! I installed PHP 5, and then I noticed I don't have GD. What I acutally did was to copy php_gd2.dll file to my extensions dir. (In php.ini you can find a line like :   extension_dir = "./"   which means where you extensions directory is.     "./" means, the extension folder is the same as the folder where php.ini file is found.)
Where to find php_gd2.dll ?? Easy! Download the zipped package of PHP, and in the ext folder you can find the dll!
You may or may not need to restart your server to make the dll work.
Huji
PS: What I said was about a windows server, but I guess you can translate it to linux server.

 

by: BenMorelPosted on 2005-06-03 at 11:03:48ID: 14141961

On a unix server, it is recommended to compile your own .o (~.dll) extension for your system !

 

by: DiscofishPosted on 2005-06-03 at 18:20:39ID: 14144237

Thanks Ben.  My RH9 distro came with the libgd.so file which I copied to my extensions dir and added the line in php.ini.  I got an error saying that libgd.so could not be loaded.

I downloaded source, compiled and copied the libgd.so file over.  No error message this time, but the module does not show up in the php_info() function.

 

by: idmiskPosted on 2005-06-04 at 04:10:50ID: 14145179

the only way to "fix" this problem is to compile the php module, you can't use system gd.so.

as user (not root!)
unpack sources to some dir (use the same version as already installed)
cd php-...
./configure --prefix=/tmp/php-gd --with-gd=shared --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-zlib
make
su -
cd php-...
make install-modules
cd /tmp/php-gd

some dirs below you will find gd.so, copy it your extension dir and it should work

 

by: hujiPosted on 2005-07-06 at 08:14:14ID: 14378757

Hi Venabili,
I guess idmisk has given a good solution in his/her last comment. I want to suggest this comment to be accepted.
Hope it helps
Huji

 

by: hujiPosted on 2006-01-10 at 23:22:23ID: 15668574

>> I will make a recommendation to the moderators on its resolution in approximately 4 days.
;););)

 

by: VenabiliPosted on 2006-01-11 at 01:37:47ID: 15669008

Any problems? :)

 

by: hujiPosted on 2006-01-11 at 03:13:35ID: 15669411

Not at all! Just kidding. I appreciate your efforts. Keep up the good work. :o)

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