Fw: [ka-Map-users] First ka-map attempt..

[Jeff Portwine]

When I tried to respond, my "reply to all" button somehow put the 
ka-map-users-request address in instead of the actual list address, so my 
response only went to Paul.    Sorry about that!

-Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Portwine" <jdport at veritime.com>
To: "Paul Spencer" <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>
Cc: <ka-map-users-request at lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ka-Map-users] First ka-map attempt..


> Ok.. I fixed the GD issue, by re-compiling php with the --with-gd option.
> phpinfo() now returns:
>
>      GD Support  enabled
>      GD Version  bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
>      GIF Read Support  enabled
>      GIF Create Support  enabled
>      PNG Support  enabled
>      WBMP Support  enabled
>      XBM Support  enabled
>
>
> But unfortunately it still won't render the tiles... i'm pretty baffled, I 
> really thought the PHP-GD thing would solve the problem.
>
> -Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Spencer" <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>
> To: "Jeff Portwine" <jdport at veritime.com>
> Cc: <ka-map-users-request at lists.maptools.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [ka-Map-users] First ka-map attempt..
>
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> this is two different instances of GD.  MapServer is linked to GD to 
>> produce map output, but we also use GD as a PHP extension (separate from 
>> MapServer) to do image manipulation ... in this case, to load the meta 
>> tile and slice it up into smaller tiles.
>>
>> If you built your PHP yourself, you need to add --with-gd to your 
>> configure option (actually, there are several options, try 
>> configure --help and see what it says).  If you installed from binaries 
>> you will have to search for a binary that provides a built in GD 
>> extension or download the PHP source and build the php_gd module as an 
>> extension.
>>
>> That's a bit beyond my skills to help with, though
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>