Re: GD graphics library

On Thu 28 Jun, Matthew Somerville wrote:
>
> In message <[email protected]>
> James Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > If there's any chance of getting GD to work on RISC OS, and therefore for
> > me to be able not only to practise using GD from Perl, but also to write
> > useful little graphics utilities on RISC OS, then I'd be very interested. I
> > can't be the only RISC OS Perl programmer that would find GD on RISC OS an
> > exciting prospect.
> 
> I'm not sure if this has already been said, and apologies if it has, but PHP
> for RISC OS (available from <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajw498/> along with
> a StrongHelp manual of the online manual available at
> <http://www.php.net/manual/> and a webserver WebJames that handles Perl and
> PHP) has GD support built in, is similar to Perl in many ways, and can be
> used as simply as follows:
[snip]

Thanks, but it is the ways in which PHP is not similar to Perl which
cause me to disfavour it. I'm sold on Perl and so would like to be
able to use GD from Perl. Given that it has already been ported for
use with PHP, I wanted to know how to get it working with Perl.
Sadly this mailing list wasn't very forthcoming. I get the impression
that Richard Proctor is the only other person still subscribed.

> I don't see why GD support couldn't be compiled in with Perl from
> source, but then you have to decide do you want GD pre 1.6 which
> outputs GIFs (as RISC OS PHP currently uses) or post 1.6 which
> outputs PNGs?

Oh PNGs naturally. :-)

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