Re: Perl-GD module installation

I would say this is the problem:
*/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype*

At least that is what the compiler says the problem is and I guess it knows
better then I do. So time to install the freetype libs. (
http://www.freetype.org/)



On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:05 AM, sivasakthi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have installed the following rpms,
>
> gd-devel-2.0.28-4.4E.1
> gd-2.0.28-4.4E.1
> gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-17.el4.3
> gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.12
> gdbm-1.8.0-24
>
> after that tried to build GD module, during make  it shows following,
>
> # make
> /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" GD/Image.pm.PLS GD/Image.pm
> Extracting Image.pm (with variable substitutions)
> cp GD/Polyline.pm blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm
> cp qd.pl blib/lib/qd.pl
> cp GD/Image.pm blib/lib/GD/Image.pm
> cp GD.pm blib/lib/GD.pm
> AutoSplitting blib/lib/GD.pm (blib/lib/auto/GD)
> cp GD/Simple.pm blib/lib/GD/Simple.pm
> cp GD/Polygon.pm blib/lib/GD/Polygon.pm
> /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/xsubpp
> -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  GD.xs >
> GD.xsc && mv GD.xsc GD.c
> gcc -c  -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/gd -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g
> -pipe   -DVERSION=\"2.35\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.35\" -fPIC
> "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ia64-linux-thread-multi/CORE"  -DHAVE_JPEG
> -DHAVE_FT -DHAVE_XPM -DHAVE_GIF -DHAVE_PNG -DHAVE_ANIMGIF GD.c
> GD.xs: In function `XS_GD__Image_STORABLE_thaw':
> GD.xs:923: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
> GD.xs: In function `XS_GD__Image_gifanimbegin':
> GD.xs:990: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> GD.xs: In function `XS_GD__Image_gifanimadd':
> GD.xs:1015: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> GD.xs: In function `XS_GD__Image_gifanimend':
> GD.xs:1034: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> Running Mkbootstrap for GD ()
> chmod 644 GD.bs
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
> gcc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib GD.o  -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
> -L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -lgd -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng
> -lz -lm -lX11 -lXpm
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so] Error 1
> [root@cfdemo GD-2.35]# make install
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
> gcc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib GD.o  -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
> -L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -lgd -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng
> -lz -lm -lX11 -lXpm
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so] Error 1
>
> what is the problem ?
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:42 -0400, Chas. Owens wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM, sivasakthi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >  I have  tried to install the Perl-GD module from source code, it
> throws
> > >  following  error when i gave make,
> > >
> > >  GD.xs:7:16: gd.h: No such file or directory
> > snip
> > >  how can i eliminate the problem ? is any header file rpms missed?
> >
> > Yes, you are missing the header (aka devel) rpms.  You can install
> > them by saying
> >
> > sudo yum install gd-devel
> >
> > Any dependencies should be taken care of by yum.
> >
>