Drupal 6 with GD on OS/X

In my last post on Apache, PHP & Postgres on OS/X, I left off with the step where I was installing Drupal. Heck, that was easy. I downloaded and unzipped Drupal, placed it into my Sites directory, set up a symbolic link and hit it with http://localhost/drupal. I had to adjust some permissions with a chmod -R a+w *, but the installer ran fine, found Postgres and finished nicely.

But Drupal's administrative page reported that I had problems because I was missing GD, which is necessary for image handling. This required a recompile of PHP. The documentation indicated that by adding the --with-gd, that PHP would compile with the built in GD distribution. Unfortunately, I needed other libraries, JPEG, PNG & ZLIB in particular. This is with PHP 5.2.10, please recall. Older versions used TIFF also, so it seems.

I ended up intalling FINK to make life easy. I ran the following commands:

sudo fink install libjpeg
sudo fink install libpng3

(use fink list libpng to find out which version you need to install fink reports that the package can't be found)

I then modified my PHP config command to be:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --with-zlib --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-openssl --without-iconv --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-sockets --with-pgsql --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-jpeg-dir=/sw --with-png-dir=/sw --with-gd --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local

Note that when using the --with-jpeg-dir=DIR commands, the DIR needs to be the directory in which the /lib directory that contains the .a or .so exists. That's why I used --with-jpeg-dir=/sw and not --with-jpeg-dir=/sw/lib.

Next is make and sudo make install. Then recycle the Web Sharing service and Drupal is reporting GD installed. Whoot!