Comments on: Adding GD Library for Mac OS X Leopard

By: daveosx

daveosx — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:26:06 +0000

Many thanks worked out of the box first try.
Terminal works better for using sudo su rather than su in X11 that way you do not need to enable root user account.

By: joan

joan — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:05:05 +0000

You are the fucking master!

thank you!

By: TomasN

TomasN — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:21:30 +0000

Thank you very much for this guide to install GD on Leopard. I follow exactly the instruction an now I have GD running on my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (64 bit). I just want to clarify that for this to work properly, commands must be entered in the Terminal through BASH and not through TCSH or CSH.

I am very grateful.

Regards

Tomas

By: chris

chris — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:45:47 +0000

i’ve followed the instructions and it worked. however it seems that calendar functions are missing. [ jdtogregorian() ]

would appreciate any assistance….
thanks!

By: Pino

Pino — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:44:16 +0000

Hill, just to express my appreciation for all the precious info available in this place and some comments. I) After installing 64-bit GD as a mod-php5 extension and editing the php.ini file, the command line tool stopped working. It only resumed by bypassing the gd-version of the php.ini. This has been most useful to me in order to install PEAR and its extensions, which do not ship in the original mac version of PHP.
Now I am trying a 64-bit upgrade of the perl command line, but that seems another complex story as I found that there are a few configuratin issues that are not solved by “playing” with the 64-bit flags (it still is not an easy play for me, but this discussion place has been a superb training). Thanks to all of you guys too.
Pino.

By: Kénior

Kénior — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:39:49 +0000

@jason
yes,yes, thank you jason. Of course you can use fink’s library to enable libjpeg, but please note that will not work in a Intel 64-bit MAC.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:25:49 +0000

As someone already noticed that the shared library could not be produced for jpeg on some occasion, I solved it after struggled for days.
Here is how I got shared library for jpeg for OSX 10.5
tar -xzf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.* .
curl -o ltconfig http://www.finkproject.org/files/ltconfig
curl -o ltmain.sh http://www.finkproject.org/files/ltmain.sh
./configure –enable-shared –enable-static
make

By: Yokiyoki

Yokiyoki — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:21:29 +0000

Simply absolutely plain perfect Thank you very very very much for this real time saver tutorial.

By: Torgeir

Torgeir — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:13:52 +0000

I had the same problem as almost everybody through these comments.. everything installed, nothing happened.

Apache error_log gave /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/gd.so’ - (null) in Unknown on line 0, while PHP command line gave dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _php_sig_gif
Referenced from: /SourceCache/php-5.2.4/ext/gd/modules/gd.so
Expected in: flat namespace.

I first installed everything on a first generation MacBook (i.e. 32-bit) then attempted on one of the new MacMinis (64-bit). The MacBook install worked on the first attempt, while the MacMini tok some attempts. After realizing it was a 64-bit, I gave it another try using the other instructions and sudo-ing every command.. No luck.

Doing a software update grabbing PHP-5.2.5, and using this source instead of the PHP-5.2.4, I decided to enable the sudo user through the Directory Utility’s Edit menu and logging in using sudo su. I followed the 64-bit instructions one last time, and it works like a charm:)
Great work guys!

By: 1003

1003 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:58:44 +0000

sudo -s gives you a root terminal session until you type exit or quit. the step to enable root user is not necessary.