On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Issac Goldstand wrote:
> Apache::GD::Thumbnail - CPAN friendly. It needs, however, GD, which
> means that instead of using Perl Magick for the sole use of generating
> thumbnails, you'll be using GD for the sole purpose of generating
> thumbnails... Also, it only has jpeg support currently...
>
> But it _is_ easy :-)
GD isn't actually that easy to install. Trust me, I've been hacking at it
all afternoon. You'll need to download the C code and install if first
(along with any other supporting software that requires,) then install
GD.pm from CPAN.
The install's not *so* bad if you
a) don't require freetype support (for producing truetype font support
which you won't for thumbnails) or XPM support (which you also won't
need for producing thumbnails)
b) have things like libpng and libjpeg already installed with the header
files (a nice Linux distribution might do this)
b) patch gd with the patch that ships with GD.pm to use gnu configure
and then use the ./configure script remembering to help it out with
--libdir and --includedir to point to the lib and include dirs with the
right headers in if it can't automatically find them
Said simply, it's not a simple CPAN install.
If you have any problems, give me a shout and I'll see if I can help,
since it's all fresh in my mind atm.
Later.
Mark.
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