Undefined symbol when compiling mapscript for Perl

[Stephen Lime]

Many linux boxes come with GD-1.3 installed by default. I know this is the case on RedHat
since that's what I develop with at home. I suspect that there are conflicting libraries are 
you're system. One fix is to move any GD libs in /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib to someplace else
(temporarily). Re-run configure and build the mapserver and mapscript. Then replace the
moved libs. That should work and fix things.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
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>>> Don Silvia <don at dlsilvia.ne.mediaone.net> 03/04/01 09:09AM >>>
Hi,

I'm having a problem compiling mapscript for Perl.  I'm seeing the same 
problem as described by Chris Fuhrman in a previous post:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/0003/msg00012.html 

I've tried this with both versions 3.4 and 3.3.011.  I can compile the 
mapserv CGI and it works fine.  I compile mapscript for Perl with no 
errors, but when I try to run one of the example programs, I get an error 
about undefined symbol: gdImageCreateFromGif:

[don at ratbert progdev]$ dump.pl -file=doq_idx
Can't load 
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/mapscript/mapscript.so' 
for module mapscript: 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/mapscript/mapscript.so: 
undefined symbol: gdImageCreateFromGif at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 200.

Like Chris, I'm using the GD 1.2 version that comes with mapserver.  Unlike 
him, however, I don't have any NFS mounts involved.  I'm building this on 
Red Hat 6.2.

I notice that the Makefile has '-DUSE_GD_1_3' in it, and when compiling the 
mapserv CGI, I get a warning: mapraster.c:548: warning: implicit 
declaration of function `gdImageCreateFromGif'.  But as I said, the CGI 
works fine.

Thanks,

Don Silvia