Installing PHP on 64-bit systems
Saturday, April 19th, 2008I 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!