Building extra php version 5.0.4 with mysql, libpdf and imagick

Some private company I work for have an expensive licence (EUR 800) for libpdf 6.0.4 working only with php 5.0.3 (according to documentation). Because it is compiled against PHP_API 20041030 otherwise throws this error:

Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=0

PHP 5.0.4 works also fine.

So I've decided to register another suffix to compile <whatever>.phppdf with php running as cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.0.4.

• ImageMagick-6.2.9 ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/ImageMagick/
• php 5.0.4 http://www.php.net/releases/
• imagick 0.9.13 http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/

wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.2.9-8.tar.bz2
tar -xjf ImageMagick-6.2.9-8.tar.bz2
cd ImageMagick-6.2.9
./configure --with-x
make
make install

note: That –with-x must be there, because imagick.c (imagick.h to be precise) defines structure imagick_t with draw_context variable. This item's type depends on version. Once it is DrawContext and then it is DrawingWand*.

note: Or you can change the type between this two

DrawingWand*    draw_context ; /*new api */
DrawContext     draw_context ;

note: If you run into compiling problems with strcpy or atexit, this is because of gcc 4.3. It is the new gcc's design/api problem, nothing serious.

shit:

Magick++/lib/Image.cpp:3915: error: 'atexit' was not declared in this scope

add this line

fix:

#include <cstdlib>

tar -xzf php-5.0.4.tar.gz
cd php-5.0.4/ext
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-0.9.13.tgz
tar -xzf imagick-0.9.13.tgz
mv imagick-0.9.13 imagick

rm configure
./buildconf --force
Here you can check "./configure --help" if it hase --with-imagick option
./configure --with-imagick --with-mysql
make

cp php-5.0.4/sapi/cgi/php /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.0.4

So here is a short debian oriented how-to register new .phppdf suffix to get compiled by /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.0.4.

• a2enmod action
• mod-available/phppdf.conf

  AddHandler php-script .phppdf .phppdf
  Action php-script /cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.0.4

• ln -s sites-available/phppdf.conf sites-enabled/phppdf.conf
• /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

That's all!