Hi,

I'm trying to run my first cgi script using gd graphics. Text in the cgi script appears on the web page when the page called via the browser , but no graphics are present on the page. I'm using gd, but the error log suggests I have forgotten to load it. I thought I had installed/loaded it, but given my track record so far, I probably havn't. I hope the following info gives some clue as to what I've done, (I apologise for the format but it seems very difficult to have to put all the br breaks in)

I'm using perl 5.8.1
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration: 

  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.7-10, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.7-10 #1 thu sep 6 17:27:27 
+edt 2001 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-de'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl
+icity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LA
+RGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include
+/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98
+)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+2
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.
+a
    gnulibc_version='2.2.4'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynami
+c'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

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Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 

  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Oct  4 2003 12:00:41
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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The modules that are loaded.... 

Compress::Zlib -- 1.22
GD -- 2.07
Perl -- 5.8.1
Text::Format -- 0.52

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The lib directories.... 

/usr/local/lib

total 6020
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Oct 10 05:54 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Oct  7 20:14 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2774930 Oct 10 05:04 libfreetype.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          738 Oct 10 05:04 libfreetype.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Oct 10 05:04 libfreetype.so
+ -> libfreetype.so.6.3.4
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Oct 10 05:04 libfreetype.so
+.6 -> libfreetype.so.6.3.4
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1307842 Oct 10 05:04 libfreetype.so
+.6.3.4
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       821148 Oct 10 05:54 libgd.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          802 Oct 10 05:54 libgd.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Oct 10 05:54 libgd.so -> li
+bgd.so.2.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Oct 10 05:54 libgd.so.2 -> 
+libgd.so.2.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       507927 Oct 10 05:54 libgd.so.2.0.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       219834 Oct 10 05:26 libpng12.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Oct 10 05:26 libpng12.so ->
+ libpng12.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Oct 10 05:26 libpng12.so.0 
+-> libpng12.so.0.1.2.5
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       196358 Oct 10 05:26 libpng12.so.0.
+1.2.5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Oct 10 05:26 libpng.a -> li
+bpng12.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Oct 10 05:26 libpng.so -> l
+ibpng.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Oct 10 05:26 libpng.so.3 ->
+ libpng.so.3.1.2.5
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       196358 Oct 10 05:26 libpng.so.3.1.
+2.5
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        65880 Oct 10 04:55 libz.a
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Oct 10 15:56 perl5
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 10 05:26 pkgconfig

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The cgi script...

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use GD;

print "Content-type: text/plain","\n\n";
print "Welcome to my Web Server!", "\n";

$remote_host=$ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'};
print "You are visiting from", $remote_host, ".";

my $gd = GD::Image->new(400,300);


my$white  =  $gd->colorAllocate(255, 255, 255);
my$black  =  $gd->colorAllocate(0, 0, 0);
my$red    =  $gd->colorAllocate(255, 0, 0);
my$green  =  $gd->colorAllocate(0, 255, 0);
my$blue   =  $gd->colorAllocate(0, 0, 255);
my$yellow  =  $gd->colorAllocate(255, 255, 0);

gd->filledRectangle(0, 129, 199, 169, $blue);

my $poly = GD::Polygon-new();
$poly->addPt(199, 149);
$poly->addPt(399, 74);
$poly->addPt(324, 149);
$poly->addPt(399, 244);

gd->filledPolygon($poly, $yellow);
gd->polygon      ($poly, $black);


gd->arc(199, 149, 250, 250, 0, 360, $red);
gd->arc(199, 100, 200, 250, 0, 360, $red);
gd->fillToBorder(99, 149, $red, $green);


gd->rectangle(0, 0, 399, 299, $red);
gd->line(199, 0, 199, 299, $red);
gd->line(0, 149, 399, 149, $red);


exit(0);

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The error... 

Can't locate object method "filledRectangle" via package "gd" (perhaps
+ you forgot to load "gd"?) at /var/www/cgi-bin/GDtest.cgi line 22.

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Am I barking up the wrong tree, or just plain barking mad?

janitored yb ybiC: Formatting clean-up using balanced <code> and <p> tags

In reply to httpd error_log (perhaps you forgot to load "gd"?) by Clunk

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