Posted by oy on 08/30/06 15:46

Hi Miguel,

I am trying to build PDFlib Lite 6.0.3 to use with PHP 5.1.4 on Linux,
too. But I could not get PECL working. Pear is installed but i am new
to PECL and PEAR. Could you please tell how to build the pdf.so using
PECL?


Miguel Cruz wrote:
> I'm curious - has anyone managed to get this to work?
>
> I am trying to use PHP 5.1.4 with PDFlib Lite 6.0.3.
>
> On both Linux and Mac, pear won't build it and tells me I have to use
> pecl. Pecl goes through the build process, builds a pdf.so, fails to
> copy it to the extensions/blahblah directory, and then adds it to the
> list of installed extensions (which is incorrect; the install never
> completed successfully).
>
> At the moment I'm working on the Mac, where I've used softlink hijinks
> to grab a copy of the pdf.so file before pecl deletes it, and installed
> it manually in the extensions directory.
>
> When I do this, the PHP CLI is able to use PDF functions. However,
> Apache won't start - it dies with a bus error (if I comment the pdf.so
> line out from php.ini, it works fine).
>
> Par for the course? Anyone having better luck? What was the trick to get
> it to work with OSX? Did you have to build your own Apache?
>
> miguel
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