[genevish]

I installed Panther and am trying to enable the GD graphics libraries for use by PHP.

I have installed the latest GD binaries from http://www.boutell.com/gd/ and comiled them fine.

Now what? Do I need to recompile PHP with GD support?

Thanks,

-Scott

[madmacgames]

Yeah I believe you need to recompile PHP with GD support. The Apple Dev site gives an example of compiling PHP with GD support:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/php.html

[Simon Mundy]

You'll also want to install at least the JPEG and PNG libraries as well, if you want GD to be of any use.

There's a whole lot of hoop-jumping to get this done, but the most straight-forward instructions I've found for doing this is at http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Wor...-06-12.01.html

When you're compiling PHP (I assume it will be 4.3.3 or 4.3.4, right?) make sure you set the following parameters:

--with-gd \
--with-zlib=/usr \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--with-png-dir=/usr \

That will force PHP to compile with it's built-in GD library (which is a GOOD thing - it's premade to work without any fuss) as well as including support for your new JPEG and PNG libraries.

I've also worked out (after much trial and error) how to include FreeType without using Fink, so drop me a line if you're interested.