Solaris Package Archive -- gd 1.8.1

Solaris Package Archive

gd 1.8.1

Mark <mark@ibiblio.org>


What is it (from the web page):
gd 1.8.1 is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. gd is not a paint program.

gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation. It is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink graphics package, but version 1.8.1 incorporates most of the commonly requested features for an 8-bit 2D package.

The main site for gd is http://www.boutell.com/gd/

Email To
Send bug reports to boutell@boutell.com, pjw@thyme.com.au

Solaris Issues
I've locked each package to the Solaris release it was built on. Only install the correct version for your system.

Note that this package was compiled with the X11R6.x software available on this site installed on the production machine. This means that to sucessfully use this software you need to install the X11 package as well, or create some X11 library links as mentioned in the README.

Click here to read about the 32 bit and 64 bit Solaris 7 and 8 packages.

Source Code
You can download the source code from ftp://ftp.boutell.com/pub/boutell/gd/gd-1.8.1.tar.gz

Special Issues
As previously mentioned, also install the X11R6.4 package to ensure the required libraries are available.

See the main packages README for installation information.