GD not loaded though compiled, resulting in "Call to undefined function"

[czamora]

Hi,

My current php installation (version 4.3.9) was built with GD:

--with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-gdbm

but when I try to use any GD functions I get:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagefontheight()

GD is installed on my system (Linux Centos 4.3), as indicated by yum, and by the fact that Webmin uses it.

I have tried loading it as an extension, by including the line
extension=libgd.so
in a file inside /etc/php.d, but it does not find that library. If I link /usr/lib/php4/libgd.so to the actual library file in /usr/lib/libgd.so.2, then it complains that the file is not a php extension library.

I don't know what else to do, or what can be wrong.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

get_loaded_extensions() gives:
Array
(
\[0] => yp
[1] => xml
[2] => wddx
[3] => tokenizer
[4] => sysvshm
[5] => sysvsem
[6] => standard
[7] => sockets
[8] => shmop
[9] => session
[10] => pspell
[11] => posix
[12] => pcre
[13] => overload
[14] => mime_magic
[15] => iconv
[16] => gmp
[17] => gettext
[18] => ftp
[19] => exif
[20] => dio
[21] => dbx
[22] => dba
[23] => curl
[24] => ctype
[25] => calendar
[26] => bz2
[27] => bcmath
[28] => zlib
[29] => openssl
[30] => apache2handler
[31] => mysql
)

The complete ./configure options for php were:

./configure --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --cache-file=../config.cache --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d --enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-debug --enable-pic --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --with-db4=/usr --with-curl --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-gdbm --with-gettext --with-ncurses=shared --with-gmp --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-openssl --with-png --with-pspell --with-xml --with-expat-dir=/usr --with-dom=shared,/usr --with-dom-xslt=/usr --with-dom-exslt=/usr --with-xmlrpc=shared --with-pcre-regex=/usr --with-zlib --with-layout=GNU --enable-bcmath --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-magic-quotes --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-track-vars --enable-trans-sid --enable-yp --enable-wddx --with-pear=/usr/share/pear --with-imap=shared --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-ldap=shared --with-mysql=shared,/usr --with-pgsql=shared --with-snmp=shared,/usr --with-snmp=shared --enable-ucd-snmp-hack --with-unixODBC=shared,/usr --enable-memory-limit --enable-shmop --enable-calendar --enable-dbx --enable-dio --enable-mbstring=shared --enable-mbstr-enc-trans --enable-mbregex --with-mime-magic=/usr/share/file/magic.mime --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs

[czamora]

Is any other data needed?

[Cabhan]

Well, I ran the message through Google, and it's not an uncommon problem, so it seems. Before I tell you what I found, I should mention that I do not know PHP.

Now then, some solutions seemed to be:

4) edit /etc/php/apach2-php4/php.ini
uncomment the "extension=php_gd2.dll" line

5) Restart apache2

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

-- http://us2.php.net/imageCreate()

If you compiled PHP yourself but get an error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagettftext().

You need to compile PHP with more options.

--with-gd
--enable-gd-native-ttf
--with-png
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib/zlib-1.2.1
--with-ttf
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib/jpeg-6b/
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib/freetype-2.1.9/
--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6/

The next set deal with setting up GD, and the appropriate options. Just enabling GD, ttf, png & jpeg is NOT enough. You also need Freetype and XPM.

-- http://theserverpages.com/php/manual...agettftext.php

If you have configured and compiled PHP with all the necessary command-line options and still get the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagettftext()

Try doing a "make clean" before building the php apache module:

./configure [...]
make clean
make
make install

This may solve your problem (and hopefully keep you from wasting hours trying different compile options!)

-- http://www.usphp.com/function.imagettftext.html

Try these, and if they don't work, keep going through Google. I got 382 hits for your error message.

[czamora]

Just for everybody's reference, the solution, as pointed out at the centos.org forum, was simply to check for packages related to GD, with:

yum list *gd*

Then, I could see there is package called php-gd.i386 that was not installed on my system.

The only thing I had to do was to install that package:

yum install php-gd.i386

and restart Apache.

It worked like magic!

Thanks to all for your help anyways.