Re: [GD-DEVEL] just installed GD, cannot use PNG

Hi Niklas,


On Nov 5, 2007 7:55 PM, Niklas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
> I have installed GD and some of the other recommended libraries
> (libpng, libjpeg etc).
> After installing it I tried to compile the basic example(http://
> www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.33.html#basics).
>
> When I compile using gcc myFile.c -lgd -lpng I get an error saying -
> lpng is not specified.
> So instead I tried linking the libpng.a file. But I did not have one.
> I installed using macports(a tool that downloads and compile some
> software).
> So I then downloaded the source from the libpng website and compiled
> it myself.
>
> -lpng still did not work, but at least I had a libpng.a file. So I
> passed the path to it to gcc. This time I did not get any error
> message, but the PNG file generated by the example cannot be opened.
> Do you guys have any suggestion on how this can be solved? I'm out of
> ideas.

Sorry for the delay, I missed your post in the list. Did you solve
your problem? If not can you show us some code?

Cheers,
--Pierre