Mike - you're a genius! even with your help I stumpled a tad but it was
You mean Matt.
my own fault. I had all 3 kits, jpeg, png and zlib already installed but not the devel versions. When I tried installing the latest I got all kinds of version conflicts and so backed up to earlier versions of the devel ones. It then build and it looks like I'm off to the races.
thought I am brand new to php, I'd think enough people would want to use it with gd integrated that there would have been specific directions in some prominent location. I'm also pretty disappointed that it didn't build gd out-of-the-box as promised on the gd website. finally, I was
But it does. The GD libraries are included in PHP, you just need to turn them on. However, GD requires supporting libraries to be able to support certain image formats, which is clearly stated in the GD manual at http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.22.html
also disappointed with the fact that when I tried the --with-png-dir switch on the configure command it gave me errors that it couldn't find libpng when I know it was in the directory I specified.
But you didn't have the development libraries installed, remember. That's how RedHat does it. They package the development libraries for a package seperately. I don't know how I finally figured that one out. Alot of googling I guess. Hey, that's what mailing lists are for. ;-)
again, thanks for your help and putting up with my ranting. 8-)
Not a problem. I'm glad you got it going. I've spent days going through exactly what you are going through.
-- Matt M.
