PDF Lib Install Fail on Linux Server. Using Pecl Install PDFlib

PDF Lib install fail on linux server. Using pecl install pdflib

I got it solved this way:
Downloaded latest http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/705/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz

# cd /home/xxx/Downloads/
# wget http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/705/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz

Un-tar-gzip it

# tar xzf PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
# cd PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3

See, if and where it contains pdflib.h

# find . -name 'pdflib.h'
./PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3/libs/pdflib/pdflib.h

Install via pecl

# pecl install pdflib

If it asks for path, enter the same full path
/home/xxx/Downloads/pdf/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3/libs/pdflib
See from installation messages, if and where it added file pdf.so (in php extensions directory, this dir name may vary but file pdf.so has to exist):

# ls -la /usr/lib/php5/20090626

change pdf.ini

# nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

adding at the end

extension=pdf.so

(You may want to add it in command line php conf /etc/php5/cli/php.ini too)

reload apache

# service apache2 reload

See, if this extension appears

• for Apache see output of phpinfo() function if there is something new regarding PDFlib
  PDFlib
  PDFlib Support enabled
  PDFlib GmbH Binary-Version 7.0.5p3
  PECL Version 3.0.0
  Revision $Revision: 1.80.2.2 $

• for command line

enter at prompt

# php -i |grep PDF
PDFlib
PDFlib Support => enabled
PDFlib GmbH Binary-Version => 7.0.5p3

Error installing PDFlib

EDIT:
As Chris said in the comments, it does indicate you do not have a c compiler installed.

sudo apt-get install g++

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If it still doesn't work after installing g++, then try the below steps.

You may need to install the specific PHP PDFlib version downloaded directly from their site, then install via pecl.

http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-9/

Someone else resolved the problem this way, see the following post for full setup instructions:

PDF Lib install fail on linux server. Using pecl install pdflib

Installing pdf for php

First install pear

apt-get install php-pear
pecl install pdflib

The ask be: 'path to pdflib installation? : ' enter '/usr/local'

How to adding PDFlib to bitnami mamp stack

Bitnami developer here,

You can install PDFlib on your MAMP Stack following the steps below:

• Download PDFlib

$ cd /path/to/your/home/Downloads

$ wget http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/705/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz

• Uncompress it

$ tar -xzf PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
$ cd PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3

• Build it

$ ./configure
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

• Install via pecl

$ pecl install pdflib

It will add pdf.so to your extensions folder, so you should check where it adds it. Taking into account your installdir, it should be /Applications/mampstack-5.6.19-0/php/lib/php/extensions/pdf.so.

• Finally, you have to add this line to your `/Applications/mampstack-5.6.19-0/php/etc/php.ini:

extension=pdf.so

• And restart Apache and php-fpm:

/Applications/mampstack-5.6.19-0/ctlscript.sh restart apache

/Applications/mampstack-5.6.19-0/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm

You can check that the extension is loaded executing this command:

php -i | grep PDF

php version in plesk - extension installing on wrong version

I would recommend to do the typical installations steps.

• download the current PDFlib package for your Linux (64-bit) PHP and unpack the archive on your server
• pick the correct PDFlib PHP DSO for your used PHP version (see bind/php/php-*)
• get the correct extension_dir path from your phpinfo() output.
• copy the PDFlib PHP DSO to the extension_dir
• determine the correct php.ini from the phpinfo() output
• add extension=php_pdflib.so to the php.ini

after a restart of your webserver, you should see a "PDFlib" section in the phpinfo() output.

Please see also the PDFlib in PHP Howto or PDFlib 9.1 Tutorial, chapter 2.9 "PHP Binding" for more detailed introduction how to install PDFlib.

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