Peder, Stepwise.com has a quite well known tutorial for installing gd... it is really quite simple... it only requires png, jpeg, and zlib, and the latter is conveniently provided by Apple.
Look at stepwise (I don't have the exact link, but I am sure you can find it very easily). You will not have nearly any of the problems you experienced below. pk/ On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 05:59 PM, Peder Axensten wrote: > I want to produce graphic (pixel) files so I decided to install GD and > got it from CPAN. > > I noticed it needed the gd graphics library, so I started to install > that. > > I noticed that this needed the PNG graphics library, the zlib > compression and (optionally, but what the heck -- I was warming up!) > the FreeType rendering library as well as the JPEG library. So I > installed these. (But I decided to give XPM and X Windows a miss.) > > I noticed that to install FreeType I needed GNU make, so I installed it > too. > > Back to GD and tried to compile it, but I was missing include files for > FreeType and jpeg, so I copied them by hand (I thought 'make install' > did those things?). I got that working but now it needs malloc.h! I > knew it must be somewhere and sure, there are several: > /System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/sys/malloc. > h, /usr/include/objc/malloc.h and /usr/include/sys/malloc.h. > > I don't know Unix very well (but I've learned a lot today!), I know > that malloc is part of ANSI C -- why doesn't GD see it? > > [localhost:libs/GD/gd-1.8.4] peder% make > cc -I. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -O -DHAVE_LIBPNG > -DHAVE_LIBJPEG -DHAVE_LIBFREETYPE -DHAVE_LIBTTF -c -o gdft.o gdft.c > gdcache.h:43: header file 'malloc.h' not found > cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in > basic mode > make: *** [gdft.o] Error 1 > > Since I had just installed gnumake I tried it too, but with the same > result. > > Second question: are these instalments safe for future System upgrades > in /usr/local/ or should I have them somewhere else? Any advice is most > welcome. > > -- /Peder Axensten > Phone: +46-90-32344 (home), +46-90-786.7719 (work) > Fax: +46-90-786.5121 (work)
