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What are the steps for compiling pdflib with PHP?

Sep 21st, 1999 21:11
Nathan Wallace, Luca Perugini

this is my recipe:
 
 1) untar pdflib-2.01.tar.gz
     ./configure
     make
     make install

 2) set a symlink 
      ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpdf2.01.so  /usr/local/lib/libpdf.so
    You need to do this 'cause the PHP configure check for pdflib with
    a little C-program compiling it and linking with library named
    libpdf (!)

 2.bis)  ldconfig
    this update the info about dynamic library on you system 
    (think about the magic phrase  "Reboot  Windows "  )   ;-)  
    Linux it's COOL !!!!!  

 3) go to cvs.php.net and checkout the source tree 
     You can find How-To on http://cvs.php.net

 4) configure your php: 
      this is my configure script:
        ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs --with-ldap --with-mysql \
                        --with-pgsql=/usr --with-dbase \
                        --with-pdflib=/usr/local --with-zlib \
                        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
                        --with-tiff-dir=/usr/lib \
                        --with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd \
                        --with-system-regex=yes \
                        --enable-debug=no
     make
 
     Stop your Apache server  with  apachectl stop (don't forget it!)

     make install

     apachectl start

     and 

      .......... have happy time hacking with pdflib/php !  ;->

Some about:
 - with pdflib 2.01 there's a lot of change on API
 - php-3.0.12 is patched for pdflib 2.0
 - some strange happens installing pdflib (name mismatch..)