[mapserver-users] GD and PHP 5.3

[Toomas Aas]

Hello!

I have compiled Mapserver and PHP/MapScript on FreeBSD many times over  
many years, but now is the first time I'm trying this with PHP 5.3.

In the past, when compiling the GD extension for PHP, I have always  
compiled it with external GD library. It is my understanding that  
since Mapserver is also compiled with the GD library support, this  
approach is necessary since otherwise I'd end up with symbol conflicts  
between gd.so and php_mapscript.so.

I tried the same with PHP 5.3, but loading the gd extension results in error:
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20090626/gd.so: Undefined  
symbol "gdJpegGetVersionString"

If I compile the GD extension with PHP's bundled GD library, this  
error does not happen.

How are other people handling this these days? Is using external GD  
library in PHP still a requirement, or is this no longer a problem?

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Toomas Aas