PHP 4.0 Bug #5220: Can't initialize download.swwwing.com's php_gd.dll

From: raganwald@yahoo.com Operating system: WIndows NT 4.0 SP 5 PHP version: 4.0 Release Candidate 2 PHP Bug Type: Dynamic loading related Bug description: Can't initialize download.swwwing.com's php_gd.dll Hello, and thanks in advance for your help. I want to do some JPEG manipulation with PHP on Win32. Actually, I need to do JPEG manipulation and I'm trying to convince my colleagues we can use PHP instead of Java. Helping with this can help advance the PHP cause!!! I installed PHP4 in D:/Devt/PHP/PHP4, and Apache in C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/... My Apache httpd.conf file includes: AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php Action application/x-httpd-php4 "/php4/php.exe" ScriptAlias /php4/ "D:/devt/php/php4/" And my php.ini file is in in C:/Winnt. I tried scarfing php_gd.dll , php_zlib.dll, and zlib.dll from download.swwwing.com. I placed these in D:/Devt/php/php4. Whenever I 'uncomment' php_gd.dll in the php.ini file (to load the dll automatically), I get two problems First, the header information leaks into the HTML, regardless of whether I am calling a GD function or not. For example: <HTML> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP"> echo ("Hello ") </SCRIPT> <?php echo ("World") ?> </HTML> Generates: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.1-dev Content-type: text/html <HTML> Hello World</HTML> I gather this is a known problem with 4.0.x. Second, the functions I try to call in GD are not available. For example: <?php $im = ImageCreate (150, 30); $bgc = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); $tc = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); ImageFilledRectangle ($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc); ImageString ($im, 1, 5, 5, "My Message", $tc); Header("Content-Type: image/jpeg"); ImageJPEG($im); ImageDestroy($im); ?> Generates: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.1-dev Content-type: text/html Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreate() in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\test\autoload.php on line 3 I tried manually loading the GD library: <?php echo( dl("php_gd.dll") ); $im = ImageCreate (150, 30); $bgc = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); $tc = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); ImageFilledRectangle ($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc); ImageString ($im, 1, 5, 5, "My Message", $tc); Header("Content-Type: image/jpeg"); ImageJPEG($im); ImageDestroy($im); ?> Generates: Warning: gd: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with debug=0, thread-safety=1 module API=20000609 PHP compiled with debug=0, thread-safety=0 module API=20000401 These options need to match in Unknown on line 0 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreate() in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\test\manualload.php on line 5 This seems to suggest that there is a problem initializing the GD library. A dll conflict? Any ideas? Thanks VERY much in advance!