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How can I add WebP support to a php7.2 install in a amazon linux 2 box?

In a new amazon linux2 box I ran the following:

sudo amazon-linux-extras install php7.2

sudo yum install php-gd

But then when I run:

php -r 'var_dump(gd_info());'

I get:

array(13) { ["GD Version"]=> string(26) "bundled (2.1.0 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(true) ["FreeType Linkage"]=> string(13) "with freetype" ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPEG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XPM Support"]=> bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["WebP Support"]=> bool(false) ["BMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) }

I don't know what I have to do to have WebP Support as true

Solution

  • Yes I had to compile gd

    First I removed the old version sudo yum remove php-gd

    then check php version php -v

    get the src sudo wget https://github.com/php/php-src/archive/php-7.2.3.tar.gz

    sudo tar zxf php-7.2.3.tar.gz

    cd php-src-php-7.2.3/ext/gd/

    I had to install these sudo yum install php-devel gd-devel libwebp-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel

    sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

    sudo yum install libwebp-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel zlib-devel libXpm-devel

    sudo phpize

    sudo ./configure --with-jpeg-dir --with-freetype-dir --with-xpm-dir --with-webp-dir --with-png-dir --with-zlib-dir

    sudo make

    sudo cp modules/gd.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/

    and then edit php.ini to enable sudo nano /etc/php.ini

    add extension=gd

    then it is available php -m

    php -r 'var_dump(gd_info());'

    array(13) { ["GD Version"]=> string(26) "bundled (2.1.0 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(true) ["FreeType Linkage"]=> string(13) "with freetype" ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPEG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XPM Support"]=> bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["WebP Support"]=> bool(true) ["BMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) }