[mapserver-users] Problems with gd missing freetype support in RedHat 7.2

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

This is really just a general note for the archives so that if anyone
encounters the same problem they will have an answer:

Problem: Running php_mapscript (possibly will affect other forms of
mapserver too) on RedHat 7.2 raises an error where truetype labels are
used ('gd has not been compiled with freetype support'). I tried
compiling gd from source, but it does not seem to create a libgd.so
file, only a libgd.a file. This causes apache to not load properly.

Solution: Grab the redhat 7.1 rpm for gd (version 1.8.3) which does
seem to have freetype compiled in and downgrade the gd1.8.4 to this
version. Restart the httpd server and you should one again be able to
use truetype labels on your maps.

Tim

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