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Installing PHP on 64-bit systems

I was trying to install PHP 5.2.5 using Litespeed’s handy admin interface (saves ssh’ing into the server), but kept being met with the following error when it was trying to compile;

configure: error: libpng.(a|so) not found.

Turns out it’s related to my system being 64-bit (I’m using CentOS 5 on Slicehost) and where libpng is installed and so on. Found the answer in this PHP bug report where we specifically tell configure where to look;

./configure --with-libdir=lib64 …

Sorted!

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One Response to “Installing PHP on 64-bit systems”

  1. Andrew Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    hah!

    Wish I’d found this post last night! I installed PHP through Litespeed and got snagged on this point. Same solution, though all mine was done through the webmin!

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