Re: [Freetype] need help in implementing freetype in gd/php

[David Turner]

Hello Klaus,

  PHP relies on GD 1.x which relies on FreeType 1.x
  and _not_ FreeType 2. That's why you cannot build it properly
  with FT2..

Regards,

- David Turner


Klaus Spithost a écrit :
> 
> Hi there,
> I'm trying to build a Apache including PHP with freetype so that I can use
> (among others) the PHP-function ImageTTFText. I'm using (among other
> things) PHP 4.1.2, Apache 1.3.23, the gd 1.8.4 lib from Boutell, libpng
> 1.2.1, zlib 1.1.3, jpeg v6b and the 2.0.8 freetype lib.
> Somehow I can't get the gd lib compiled with freetype support :-(
> gd compiles great with the standard Makefile but that one doesn't compile
> to something that understands the wanted PHP-functions. Then PHP says
> things to me like:
> 
> libgd was not built with FreeType font support
> 
> This is a message that I found in a gd-file with the name gdttf.c and it is
> produced when accessing something using gdttf when freetype is not compiled
> into gd.
> When I juggle around with the Makefile of gd to get in the freetype support
> I get a lot of parse-errors in gdttf.c and warnings about variables that
> are not declared and so on and logically gd wil not compile and the wanted
> library is not created.
> 
> I'm not a C-wizzard as you might have guessed so everything that has to do
> with interpreting C-code is beyond me. I can't imagine needing any
> C-knowledge for this though because I don't want to change anything in the
> way the functions do their work.
> It propably is something very simple in the settings in the Makefile of gd
> or something like that but I can't seem to figure it out.
> The documentation of gd is slim at best and I haven't found any gd-related
> documentation in the freetype-corner so I'm sort of lost.
> 
> Is there anyone out there that has compiled a working Apache with the
> PHP-stuff I was referring to, running on Linux?
> 
> If so..... please react. Thanks a million in advance!! Bye,
>                         Klaus
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